please don't cook me, kind sirs! I am a good cook myself, and cook better than I cook, if you see what I mean.

Don't put a lump of rock under my elbow again!

Pay heed to the tales of old wives. It may well be that they alone keep in memory what it was once needful for the wise to know.

Faerie is a perilous land, and in it are pitfalls for the unwary, and dungeons for the overbold.

Indeed in nothing is the power of the Dark Lord more clearly shown than in the estrangement that divides all those who still oppose him.

Now it is a strange thing, but things that are good to have and days that are good to spend are soon told about, and not much to listen to; while things that are uncomfortable, palpitating, and even gruesome, may make a good tale, and take a deal of telling anyway.

Life is rather above the measure of us all (save for a very few perhaps). We all need literature that is above our measure--though we may not have sufficient energy for it all the time.