If the pull of the outside world is strong, there is also a pull towards the human. The cat may disappear on its own errands, but sooner or later, it returns once again for a little while, to greet us with its own type of love.

If writers learn more from their books than do readers, perhaps I may have begun to learn.

All agreed that Quickset was the cleverest cat in the world. And, since Quickset had the same opinion, it was surely true.

You know how chickens are, imagining the world coming to an end one moment, then pecking corn the next.

...alas, raising a young lady is a mystery even beyond an enchanter's skill.

There is more honor in a field well plowed than in a field steeped in blood.

Long ago I yearned to be a hero without knowing, in truth, what a hero was. Now, perhaps, I understand it a little better. A grower of turnips or a shaper of clay, a Commot farmer or a king--every man is a hero if he strives more for others than for himself alone. Once you told me that the seeking counts more than the finding. So, too, must the striving count more than the gain.