“I was not born to be free---I was born to adore and obey.”

“I wish I had never been born," she said. "What are we born for?" "For infinite happiness," said the Spirit. "You can step out into it at any moment...”

“Why should quiet ruminants as you and I have been born in such a ghastly age? ”

“Friendship ... is born at the moment when one man says to another "What! You too? I thought that no one but myself . . .”

“Are not all lifelong friendships born in the moment when at last you meet another human being who has some inkling (but faint and uncertain even in the best) of that which you were born desiring.”

“Friendship is born at that moment when one person says to another: "What! You too?”

“When there came a sound that I'd never heard the like of in all my born days. Eh, I won't forget that. The whole air was full of it, loud as thunder but far longer, cool and sweet as music over water but strong enough to shake the woods. And I said to myself, 'If that's not the Horn, call me a rabbit.”