Who doth ambition shun And loves to lie in the sun, Seeking the food he eats And pleased with what he gets,
What a bursting heart of gratitude and triumph as the ravening monster slowly paced down the arm with gripping steps and pounced upon his breakfast! The rest of the day was a glow of pleasure, a kind...
We have had a good time while we were young, but it is in the nature of Time to fly.
To disbelieve in original sin, does not mean that you must believe in original virtue. It only means that you must not believe that people are utterly wicked.
They did not look at these things as good or bad, exciting, rational or terrible. They did not look at them at all, but accepted them as Done.
There is one fairly good reason for fighting - and that is, if the other man starts it. You see, wars are a great wickedness, perhaps the greatest wickedness of a wicked species. They are so wicked th...
The poor fellow had never been cut out to be a villain.
The blessing of forgetfulness: that was the first essential. If everything one did, or which one’s fathers had done, was an endless sequence of Doings doomed to break forth bloodily, then the past mus...
The Destiny of Man is to unite, not to divide. If you keep on dividing you end up as a collection of monkeys throwing nuts at each other out of separate trees.
So little time to pass? said Merlyn, and a big tear ran down to the end of his nose.
Perhaps we all give the best of our hearts uncritically – to those who hardly think about us in return.
People commit suicide through weakness, not through strength.
People are dupes, and wicked too. That is what makes it interesting to get them better.
One more try,' he asked, 'We are not quite done.' 'What is the use of trying?' 'It is a thing which people do.
On the contrary, he made it clear that the business of the philosophers was to make ideas available, and not to impose them on people.
Oh, I love the mustard-pot! cried the Wart. Wherever did you get it? At this the pot beamed all over its face and began to strut a bit, but Merlyn rapped it on the head with a teaspoon, so that it sat...
Nobody can be too careful about their habits of speech.
It is difficult to write about a real person.
I have been thinking, said Arthur, about Might and Right. I don’t think things ought to be done because you are able to do them. I think they should be done because you ought to do them.
I am a failure in the world. I do not rule people, nor deceive them for the sake of power, nor try to swindle their livelihood into my own possession. I say to them: Please go freely on your way, and...