As long as you notice, and have to count the steps, you are not yet dancing but only learning to dance. A good shoe is a shoe you don't notice. Good reading becomes possible when you need not conciously think about eyes, or light, or print, or spelling. The perfect church service would be the one we were almost unaware of; our attention would have been on God.

Could one start a Stagnation Party-which at General Elections would boast that during its term of office no event of the least importance had taken place?

The worst attitude of all would be the professional attitude which regards children in the lump as a sort of raw material which we have to handle.

Here are beauties which pierce like swords or burn like cold iron. Here is a book [The Lord of the Rings] which will break your heart."

You've no idea how good an old joke sounds when you take it out again after a rest of five or six hundred years.

Education is only the most fully conscious of the channels whereby each generation influences the next.

if you do one good deed your reward usually is to be set to do another and harder and better one.