Again, if there are really no fairies, why do people believe in them, all over the world? The ancient Greeks believed, so did the old Egyptians, and the Hindoos, and the Red Indians, and is it likely, if there are no fairies, that so many different peoples would have seen and heard them?

You can cover a great deal of country in books.

I'd leave all the hurry, the noise, and the fray, for a house full of books, and a garden of flowers.

Of all animals, the cat alone attains to the comtemplative life. He regards the wheel of existence from without, like the Buddha.

Again, if there are really no fairies, why do people believe in them, all over the world? The ancient Greeks believed, so did the old Egyptians, and the Hindoos, and the Red Indians, and is it likely, if there are no fairies, that so many different peoples would have seen and heard them?

Either a wise man will not go into bunkers, or, being in, he will endure such things as befall him with patience.

Of all the minor creatures of mythology, fairies are the most beautiful, the most numerous, the most memorable.