“The hands of a king are the hands of a healer.”

“I want to be a healer, and love all things that grow and are not barren.”

“If this is victory, then our hands are too small to hold it.”

“even as he took her hand and kissed it, he fell into sleep. Then a great beauty was revealed in him, so that all who after came there looked on him in wonder; for they saw that the grace of his youth, and the valour of his manhood, and the wisdom and majesty of his age were blended together. And long there he lay, an image of the splendour of the Kings of Men in glory undimmed before the breaking of the world.”

“The burned hand teaches best. After that, advice about fire goes to the heart.”

“Courage will now be your best defence against the storm that is at hand-—that and such hope as I bring.”

“Such is of the course of deeds that move the wheels of the world: small hands do them because they must, while the eyes of the great are elsewhere.”