But I remember more dearly autumn afternoons in bottoms that lay intensely silent under old great trees

Things never happen the same way twice.

I dread specialists in power because they are specialists speaking outside of their special subject.

Do not cite the Deep Magic to me, Witch. I was there when it was written.

Many thousands of people have had the experience of finding the first friend, and it is none the less a wonder; as great a wonder (pace the novelists) as first love, or even greater.

The real problem is not why some pious, humble, believing people suffer, but why some do not.

Whatever men expect, they soon come to think they have a right to; the sense of disappointment can, with very little skill on our part, be turned into a sense of injury. (senior devil speaking)