Remember, he is not, like you, a pure spirit. Never having been a human (Oh that abominable advantage of the Enemy's) you don't realize how enslaved they are to the pressure of the ordinary.

To what will you look for help if you will not look to that which is stronger than yourself?

The best swordsman in the world may be disarmed by a trick that's new to him.

Something deep in the human heart breaks at the thought of a life of mediocrity.

His face had become very red and his mouth and fingers were sticky. He did not look either clever or handsome, whatever the Queen might say.

We have lost the invaluable faculty of being shocked a faculty which has hitherto almost distinguished the Man or Woman from the beast or child.

It certainly is my opinion that a book worth reading only in childhood is not worth reading even then.