We must perpetually try to distinguish, however closely they get entwined by the subtle nature of the facts and by the secret importunity of our passions, those attitudes in a writer which we can honestly and confidently condemn as real evils, and those qualities in his writing which simply annoy and offend us as men of taste.

We who have been true readers all our life fully realize the enormous of our being which we owe to authors.

Obedience is the key that opens every door.

The more often he feels without acting, the less he will be able ever to act, and, in the long run, the less he will be able to feel.

Ah, you've come over the water. Powerful wet stuff, ain't it?

The castle of Cair Paravel on its little hill towered up above them; before them were the sands, with rocks and little pools of salt water, and seaweed, and the smell of the sea and long miles of bluish-green waves breaking for ever and ever on the beach. And oh, the cry of the seagulls! Have you ever heard it? Can you remember?

What we call Man's power over Nature turns out to be a power exercised by some men over other men with Nature as its instrument.