The mundanes put their faith in their paper money, and when that turns to ash, the world will turn upside down.

Mundane education is regrettably prosaic, - Jace Lightwood-Herondale

Our lord is a magic lord as we all desired, and magical things have sought him from over there, and they all obey his hests.It is so, said all but Gazic. And Gazic rose up in a pause of their gladness. Many strange things, he said, have entered our village, coming from over there. And it may be that human folk are best, and the ways of the fields we know.

The Shaod, it was called. The Transformation... When it came, the fortuante person's life ended and began anew; he would discard his old, mundane existence and move to Elantris. Elantris, where he could live in bliss, rule in wisdom, and be worshiped for eternity.Eternity ended ten years ago.

The commonest thing is delightful if one only hides it.

Most people become bankrupt through having invested too heavily in the prose of life.

If your daily life seems poor, do not blame it; blame yourself, tell yourself that you are not poet enough to call forth its riches.

Objects which are usually the motives of our travels by land and by sea are often overlooked and neglected if they lie under our eye.

Commonplaces are the tramways of intellectual transportation.

A mind too proud to unbend over the small ridicu-losa of life is as painful as a library with no trash in it.

Tis the taste of effeminacy that disrelishes ordinary and accustomed things.

Not to know at large of things remote From use, obscure and subtle, but to know That which before us lies in daily life, Is the prime wisdom.

That which one cannot experience in daily life is not true for oneself.

There is health in table talk and nursery play. We must wear old shoes and have aunts and cousins.