Children's literature is considerably more functional than a good portion of adult literature. If I were cynical, I might say: Children's books are written to be read; adult books are written to be ta...
You must know nothing before you can learn something, and be empty before you can be filled. Is not the emptiness of the bowl what makes it useful? As for laws, a parrot can repeat them word for word....
For man to be worthy of any rank, he must strive first to be a man.
A taste for adventure is by no means a masculine monopoly.
The journey is the treasure.
The only thing a cat worries about is what's happening right now. As we tell the kittens, you can only wash one paw at a time.
I shall not lie! Eilonwy cried, not for this traitor and deserter. It is not for him, Taran said quietly, but for the sake of our quest. It isn't right, Eilonwy began, tears starting in her eyes. We d...
What you may seek and what you may find are not always one.
The ocean filled the footprints where a boy and cat had stood.
Every living thing deserves our respect... be it humble or proud, ugly or beautiful.
Yet long afterward, when all had passed away into distant memory, there were many who wondered whether King Taran, Queen Eilonwy, and their companions had indeed walked the earth, or whether they had...
It is beyond any man's wisdom to judge the secret heart of another... for in it are good and evil mixed.
I can't imagine why knowledge, truth and love should be so much of a secret
Two things never mix: one is enchantments and the other is meddling with them.
Count the deed, not the thought.
Alas, in most of us good and bad are closely woven as the threads on a loom; greater wisdom than mine is needed for the judging,
I'm trying to make myself invisible.That's an odd thing to attempt.
That is why your sacrifice was all the more difficult. You chose to be a hero not through enchantment but through your own manhood.
Thus, death begets death; evil begets evil.
I have never known courage to be judged by the length of a man's hair. Or, for the matter of that, whether he has any hair at all.