We are not merely imperfect creatures who must be improved; we are rebels who must lay down our arms.

Even I never dreamed of Magic like this!

When there came a sound that I'd never heard the like of in all my born days. Eh, I won't forget that. The whole air was full of it, loud as thunder but far longer, cool and sweet as music over water but strong enough to shake the woods. And I said to myself, 'If that's not the Horn, call me a rabbit.

The real job of every moral teacher is to keep bringing us back to the simple principles, which we're so anxious not to see.

If you could see humanity spread out in time, as God sees it, it would look like one single growing thing-rather like a very complicated tree. Every individual would appear connected with every other.

Every poem can be considered in two ways--as what the poet has to say, and as a thing which he makes.

The most dangerous thing you can do is to take any one impulse of your own nature and set it up as the thing you ought to follow at all costs.