Authority exercised with humility, and obedience accepted with delight are the very lines along which our spirits live.

This wasn't a garden,' said Susan presently. 'It was a castle.

First, I do not sit down at my desk to put into verse something that is already clear in my mind. If it were clear in my mind, I should have no incentive or need to write about it. We do not write in order to be understood; we write in order to understand.

The most dangerous ideas in a society are not the ones being argued, but the ones that are assumed.

Love anything and your heart will be wrung and possibly broken. If you want to make sure of keeping it intact you must give it to no one, not even an animal.

Suspicion often creates what it suspects.

Where, except in the present, can the eternal be met?