"I have no heart, you know, so I am careful to help all those who may need a friend, even if it happens to be only a mouse."
Brains are the only things worth having in this world, no matter whether one is a crow or a man.'
"That is because you have no brains" answered the girl. "No matter how dreary and gray our homes are, we people of flesh and blood would rather live there than in any other country, be it ever so beautiful. There is no place like home."