All books are doors; and some of them are wardrobes.

There is nothing in the world so easy to explain as failure - it is, after all, what everybody does all the time.

Lovers are rarely the most rational beings in creation.

She even learnt the language of a strange country which Senior Cosetti had been told some people believed still existed, although no-one in the world could say where it was. The name of this country was Wales.

I mean that two of any thing is a most uncomfortable number. One may do as he pleases. Six may get along well enough. But two must always struggle for mastery. Two must always watch each other. The eyes of all the world will be on two, uncertain which of them to follow.

Magic, madam, is like wine and, if you are not used to it, it will make you drunk.

He understood for the first time that the world is not dumb at all, but merely waiting for someone to speak to it in a language it understands.