“Then would you read a Sustaining Book, such as would help and comfort a Wedged Bear in Great Tightness?”

“You gave me Christopher Robin, and then You breathed new life in Pooh. Whatever of each has left my pen Goes homing back to you. My book is ready, and comes to greet The mother it longs to see -- It would be my present to you, my sweet, If it weren't your gift to me.”

“Promise me you'll never forget me because if I thought you would, I'd never leave.”

“When you are a Bear of Very Little Brain, and you Think of Things, you find sometimes that a Thing which seemed very Thingish inside you is quite different when it gets out into the open and has other people looking at it.”

“But Piglet is so small that he slips into a pocket, where it is very comfortable to feel him when you are not quite sure whether twice seven is twelve or twenty-two.”

“Friendship," said Christopher Robin, "is a very comforting thing to have.”

“A bear, however hard he tries, grows tubby without exercise.”