There is nothing - absolutely nothing - half so much worth doing as simply messing about in boats.Ratty
After all, the best part of a holiday is perhaps not so much to be resting yourself, as to see all the other fellows busy working.Water Rat
Here today, up and off to somewhere else tomorrow! Travel, change, interest, excitement! The whole world before you, and a horizon that's always changing!Mr. Toad
The clever men at Oxford know all that there is to be knowed. But they none of them know one half as much as intelligent Mr Toad!Mr. Toad
Animals arrived, liked the look of the place, took up their quarters, settled down, spread, and flourished. They didn't bother themselves about the past.Narrator
It takes all sorts to make a world.Badger
Come along, Toad, and hang the expense. We'll have a jolly time!Mole
Toad is rather rich, you know, and this is really one of the nicest houses in these parts, though we never admit as much when Toad is at home.Water Rat
The Wild Wood is pretty well populated by now; with all the usual lot, good, bad, and indifferent- I name no names. It takes all sorts to make a world.Ratty
Badger hates Society, and invitations, and dinner, and all that sort of thing.Water Rat