When you go to church you are really listening-in to the secret wireless from out friends: that is why the enemy is so anxious to prevent us from going. He does it by playing on our conceit and laziness and intellectual snobbery.

No great wisdom can be reached without sacrifice.

A powerful dragon crying its eyes out under the moon in a deserted valley is a sight and a sound hardly to be imagined.

The worst of sleeping out of doors is that you wake up so dreadfully early. And when you wake up you have to get up because the ground is so hard you are uncomfortable. And it makes matters worse if there is nothing but apples for breakfast and you have had nothing but apples for supper the night before.

Pride gets no pleasure out of having something, only out of having more of it than the next man.

Surely arrested development consists not in refusing to lose old things but in failing to add new things.

Oh, I'm a dangerous criminal, I am,' said the dwarf cheerfully.