Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone (Harry Potter, #1)

by J.K. Rowling

“Don’ you worry, Harry. You’ll learn fast enough. Everyone starts at the beginning at Hogwarts, you’ll be just fine. Just be yerself. I know it’s hard. Yeh’ve been singled out, an’ that’s always hard. But yeh’ll have a great time at Hogwarts — I did — still do, ’smatter of fact.”

It does not do to dwell on dreams and forget to live, remember that.

“Nicolas Flamel,” she whispered dramatically, “is the only known maker of the Sorcerer’s Stone!”

“Me!” said Hermione. “Books! And cleverness! There are more important things — friendship and bravery and — oh Harry — be careful!”

There is no good and evil, there is only power, and those too weak to seek it.

After all, to the well-organized mind, death is but the next great adventure.

the trouble is, humans do have a knack of choosing precisely those things that are worst for them.”

Fear of a name increases fear of the thing itself.”