People shouldn't call for demons unless they really mean what they say.

If nothing in this world satisfies me, perhaps it is because I was made for another world.

I desired dragons with a profound desire.

Kindness consents very readily to the removal of its object – we have all met people whose kindness to animals is constantly leading them to kill animals lest they should suffer. Kindness, merely as such, cares not whether its object becomes good or bad, provided only that it escapes suffering.

When the police arrived and found no lion, no broken wall, and no convicts, and the Head behaving like a lunatic, there was an inquiry into the whole thing. And in the inquiry all sorts of things about Experiment House came out, and about ten people got expelled. After that, the Head's friends saw that the Head was no use as a Head, so they got her made an Inspector to interfere with other Heads. And when they found she wasn't much good even at that, they got her into Parliament where she lived happily ever after.

Some people talk as if meeting the gaze of absolute goodness would be fun. They need to think again.

Everything is as good or bad as our opinion makes it.