I'm back with my own kind of people here now, the bums and drinkers and no goods and it is a fine thing.

Man has a choice and it's a choice that makes him a man.

This is beyond understanding." said the king. "You are the wisest man alive. You know what is preparing. Why do you not make a plan to save yourself?" And Merlin said quietly, "Because I am wise. In the combat between wisdom and feeling, wisdom never wins.

Man himself has become our greatest hazard and our only hope. So that today, St. John the apostle may well be paraphrased: In the end is the Word, and the Word is Man - and the Word is with Men.

...Samuel rode lightly on top of a book and he balanced happily among ideas the way a man rides white rapids in a canoe. But Tom got into a book, crawled and groveled between the covers, tunneled like a mole among the thoughts, and came up with the book all over his face and hands.

His ear heard more than what was said to him, and his slow speech had overtones not of thought, but of understanding beyond thought.

It’s a hard thing to leave any deeply routine life, even if you hate it.