We have had a good time while we were young, but it is in the nature of Time to fly.
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.
The poor fellow had never been cut out to be a villain.
Nobody can be saved from anything, unless they save themselves. It is hopeless doing things for people-- it is often very dangerous indeed to do things at all-- and the only thing worth doing for the...
My boy, you shall be everything in the world, animal, vegetable, mineral, protista, or virus, for all I care-before I have done with you-but you will have to trust my superior backsight. The time is n...
It was called a tribute before a battle and a ransom afterwards.
In the end they came to the inner chamber, where Morgan le Fay herself lay stretched upon her bed of glorious lard.
If there is one thing I can't stand, it is stupidity. I always say that stupidity is the Sin against the Holy Ghost.
If it takes a million years for a fish to become a reptile, has Man, in our few hundred, altered out of recognition?
Owls are the most courteous, single—hearted and faithful creatures living. You must never be familiar, rude or vulgar with them, or make them look ridiculous. Their mother is Athene, the goddess of wi...
Who doth ambition shun And loves to lie in the sun, Seeking the food he eats And pleased with what he gets,
We cannot build the future by avenging the past.
Was it the wicked leaders who led innocent populations to slaughter, or was it wicked populations who chose leaders after their own hears? On the face of it, it seemed unlikely that one Leader could f...
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.
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...
So little time to pass? said Merlyn, and a big tear ran down to the end of his nose.
People commit suicide through weakness, not through strength.
Ought to be havin’ a first-rate eddication, at their age. When I was their age I was doin’ all this Latin and stuff
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...