"Oft expectation fails, and most oft there where most it promises."

"All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given us."

"The world is indeed full of peril, and in it there are many dark places; but still there is much that is fair, and though in all lands love is now mingled with grief, it still grows, and in the shadow…"

"Fantasy is a natural human activity. It certainly does not destroy or even insult Reason; and it does not either beguile Children or delude them by its pleasantness into taking non-existent things for…"

"Courage is found in unlikely places."