You can't stay in your corner of the forest waiting for others to come to you. You have to go to them sometimes.
A. A. MilneThen would you read a Sustaining Book, such as would help and comfort a Wedged Bear in Great Tightness.
A. A. MilneIt is impossible to win gracefully at chess. No man has yet said "Mate!" in a voice which failed to sound to his opponent bitter, boastful and malicious.
A. A. MilneHalfway 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!
A. A. Milne