And the only reason for making honey is so as I can eat it.

It is more fun to talk with someone who doesn't use long, difficult words but rather short, easy words like "What about lunch?

I found a little beetle, so that beetle was his name

When having a smackerel of something with a friend, don't eat so much that you get stuck in the doorway trying to get out.

Rivers know this: there is no hurry. We shall get there some day.

Sometimes, if you stand on the bottom rail of a bridge and lean over to watch the river slipping slowly away beneath you, you will suddenly know everything there is to be known.

Halfway down the stairs, is a stair, where I sit. There isn't any, other stair, quite like, it. I'm not at the bottom, I'm not at the top; So this is the stair, where, I always, stop. Halfway up the stairs, isn't up, and isn't down. It isn't in the nursery, it isn't in the town. And all sorts of funny thoughts, run round my head: It isn't really anywhere! It's somewhere else instead!