Grey damp would be around them, and the sun, a copper penny, would fade away. The wings next to their own wings would shade into vacancy, until each bird was a lonely sound in cold annihilation, a pre...
Were they, for some purpose almost too cunning for belief, only disguised as themselves?
The boy slept well in the woodland nest where he had laid himself down, in that kind of thin but refreshing sleep which people have when they begin to lie out of doors. At first he only dipped below t...
The best thing for being sad . . . is to learn something. That is the only thing that never fails. You may grow old and trembling in your anatomies, you may lie awake at night listening to the disorde...
Sometimes, he said, life does seem to be unfair. Do you know the story of Elijah and the Rabbi Jachanan? No, said the Wart. He sat down resignedly upon the most comfortable part of the floor, perceivi...
Queen Morgause, said Gwenever thoughtfully, must have been a strange person.
Nay, said Sir Lancelot ...for once shamed may never be recovered.
Merlyn took the Wart’s hand and said kindly, You are young, and do not understand these things. But you will learn that owls are the most courteous, single-hearted and faithful creatures living. You m...
Love is a trick played on us by the forces of evolution. Pleasure is the bait laid down by the same. There is only power. Power is of the individual mind but the mind's power is not enough. Power of t...
It is generally the trustful and optimistic people who can afford to retreat. The loveless and faithless ones are compelled by their pessimism to attack. Arthur
In the end they came to the inner chamber, where Morgan le Fay herself lay stretched upon her bed of glorious lard.
In the castle of Benwick, the French boy was looking at his face in the polished surface of a kettle-hat. It flashed in the sunlight with the stubborn gleam of metal. It was practically the same as th...
If I were to be made a knight, said the Wart, staring dreamily into the fire, I should insist on doing my vigil by myself, as Hob does with his hawks, and I should pray to God to let me encounter all...
I will tell you something else, King, which may be a surprise for you. It will not happen for hundreds of years, but both of us are to come back.
I incline my agreement with Toirdealbhach,' said Gareth. 'After all, what is the good of killing poor kerns who do not know anything? It would be much better for the people who are angry to fight each...
How condescending, how splendidly democratic of Sir Lancelot, to laugh, as if he were an ordinary man! Perhaps he eats and drinks as well, or even sleeps at night.
Finally, there was the impediment of his nature. In the secret parts of his peculiar brain, those unhappy and inextricable tangles which he felt at the roots, the boy was disabled by something which w...
Do you think that they, with their Battles, Famine, Black Death and Serfdom, were less enlightened than we are, with our Wars, Blockade, Influenza, and Conscription.
When Other blood spurts from the knife, Then everything is fine.
There is only one thing for it then – to learn. Learn why the world wags and what wags it. That is the only thing which the mind can never exhaust, never alienate, never be tortured by, never fear or...