Education is experience, and the essence of experience is self-reliance.

At this the Wart’s eyes grew rounder and rounder, until they were about as big as the owl’s who was sitting on his shoulder, and his face got redder and redder, and a breath seemed...

There is one fairly good reason for fighting – and that is, if the other man starts it. You see, wars are a great wickedness, perhaps the greatest wickedness of a wicked species. They are...

He thought himself awake when he was already asleep. He saw the stars above his face, whirling on their silent and sleepless axis, and the leaves of the trees rustling against them, and he heard...

And do you know another thing, Arthur? Life is too bitter already, without territories and wars and noble feuds.

Mordred and Agravaine thought Arthur hypocritical—as all decent men must be, if you assume that decency can’t exist.

If people reach perfection they vanish, you know.

Grown-ups have developed an unpleasant habit of comforting themselves for their degradation by pretending that children are childish.

War is like a fire. One man may start it, but it will spread all over. It is not about one thing in particular.

The bravest people are the ones who don’t mind looking like cowards.