“There are two things that men should never weary of, goodness and humility.”
“And yet her name was like a summons to all my foolish blood.”
“When one wishes to do a thing, one finds no lack of reasons for the doing.”
Fortune favors the brave
“Forward, my friends, into the Interior of the Earth!”
“Take the Adventure, heed the call, now ere the irrevocable moment passes!”
"If adventures will not befall a young lady in her own village, she must seek them abroad."
“It would be easy to be a princess if I were dressed in cloth of gold, but it is a great deal more of a triumph to be one all the time when no one knows it.”
"I am sure there is Magic in everything, only we have not sense enough to get hold of it and make it do things for us."
"There is an ecstasy that marks the summit of life, and beyond which life cannot rise.”