“Nothing can be truer than fairy wisdom. It is as true as sunbeams.”

“A blessed companion is a book--a book that, fitly chosen, is a lifelong friend...a book that, at a touch, pours its heart into your own.”

“a conservative is a man who will not look at the new moon, out of respect for that 'ancient institution,' the old one”

“Readers are of two sorts: one who goes carefully through a book, and the other who as carefully lets the book go through him. ”

“Happiness grows at our own firesides, and is not to be picked in strangers' gardens. ”

“...they discovered only a small asteroid inhabited by a solitary old man who claimed repeatedly that nothing was true, though he was later discovered to be lying.”

“Isn't it enough to see that a garden is beautiful without having to believe that there are fairies at the bottom of it too?”