T. H. White

“The fate of this man or that man was less than a drop, although it was a sparkling one, in the great blue motion of the sunlit sea.”

“Perhaps we all give the best of our hearts uncritically—to those who hardly think about us in return.”

“He was a man who had stood his own corner, and who had never been helped by anyone. He had had to make his own way in the world, and he had made it.”

“You could not see a cloud, because you were in it.”

“The best thing for being sad is to learn something. That's the only thing that never fails.”

“Love is a trick that nature plays on us to achieve her own ends.”

“Might does not make right. Right makes right.”

“The most important thing is to be kind. You can't go wrong with kindness.”

“It is a pity that there are no big creatures to prey on humanity. If there were enough dragons and rocs, perhaps mankind would turn its might against them.”

“He had been taught by an ancient magician who believed that the best way to learn something was to be turned into it.”

“The doom of the race is that it must die for its own protection.”

“Education is experience, and the essence of experience is self-reliance.”

“The bravest people are the ones who don't mind looking like cowards.”

“The Destiny of Man is to unite, not to divide. If you keep on dividing you end up as a collection of monkeys throwing nuts at each other out of separate trees.”

“There is a thing called knowledge of the world, which people do not have until they are middle-aged.”