If all experienced God in the same way and returned Him an identical worship, the song of the Church triumphant would have no symphony, it would be played like an orchestra in which all instruments played the same note.

That thing is Freedom: the gift whereby ye most resemble your Maker and are yourselves part of eternal reality.

The sweetest thing in all my life has been the longing — to reach the Mountain, to find the place where all the beauty came from — my country, the place where I ought to have been born. Do you think it all meant nothing, all the longing? The longing for home? For indeed it now feels not like going, but like going back.

She remembered, as every sensible person does, that you should never never shut yourself up in a wardrobe.

Some day you will be old enough to start reading fairy tales again.

If the parents in each generation always or often knew what really goes on at their sons' schools, the history of education would be very different.

A tyrannous and gluttonous demand for affection can be a horrible thing. But in ordinary life no one calls a child selfish because it turns for comfort to its mother; nor an adult who turns to his fellow "for company." Those, whether children or adults, who do so least are not usually the most selfless.