“... I had to learn how to be cheerful in the face of adversity”
“In the war of magic and religion, is magic ultimately the victor? Perhaps priest and magician were once one, but the priest, learning humility in the face of God, discarded the spell for prayer.”
“An armchair is always an armchair, to the modern child, never a ship, never a desert island. The pattern on the wall are patterns; not characters whose faces change at dusk... The trouble is, the children have no imagination. They are sweet, and have carefree, honest eyes; but they have not any magic in their day. The magic has all gone...”
“A poet is a nightingale who sits in darkness and sings to cheer its own solitude with sweet sounds.”
“We learn humility through accepting humiliations cheerfully.”