They were frightfully angry. Quite apart from the stones no spider has ever liked being called Attercop, and Tomnoddy of course is insulting to anybody.

He that breaks a thing to find out what it is has left the path of wisdom.

The Resurrection is the eucatastrophe of the story of the Incarnation - This story begins and ends in joy.

The wide world is all about you: you can fence yourselves in, but you cannot for ever fence it out.

Yet seldom do they fail of their seed, And that will lie in the dust and rot to spring up again in times and places unlooked-for. The deeds of Men will outlast us.

His face was sad and stern because of the doom that was laid on him, and yet hope dwelt ever in the depths of his heart, from which mirth would arise at times like a spring from a rock.

I don't want to be in a battle. But waiting on the edge of one I can't escape is even worse.