Gullibility is the key to all adventures. The greenhorn is the ultimate victor in everything; it is he who get the most out of life.

Do not be so open-minded that your brains fall out.

Without education we are in a horrible and deadly danger of taking educated people seriously.

But when first the two black dragons sprang out of the fog upon the small clerk, they had merely the effect of all miracles – they changed the universe. He discovered the fact that all romantics know – that adventures happen on dull days, and not on sunny ones. When the cord of monotony is stretched most tight, it it breaks with a sound like song.

A man cannot deserve adventures; he cannot earn dragons and hippogriffs.

The greenhorn is the ultimate victor in everything; it is he that gets the most out of life.