The best thing for being sad," replied Merlyn, "is to learn something. That is the only thing that never fails.
T.H. WhiteStichwörter: the-once-and-future-king
Wrongs have to be redressed by reason, not by force.
T.H. WhiteIt is the bad people who need to have principles to restrain them.
T.H. WhiteStichwörter: principles restraint bad-people
There is a thing called knowledge of the world, which people do not have until they are middle-aged. It is something which cannot be taught to younger people, because it is not logical and does not obey laws that are constant. It has no rules.
T.H. WhiteStichwörter: illogical middle-age knowledge-of-world
It is good to put your life in other people's hands.
T.H. WhiteStichwörter: life trust others
It is so fatally easy to make young children believe that they are horrible.
T.H. WhiteStichwörter: children childhood mistakes upbringing
It is only the people who are lacking, or bad, or inferior, who have to be good at things.
T.H. WhiteStichwörter: inferiority excel inferiority-complex
He loved Arthur and he loved Guenever and he hated himself. The best knight of the world: everybody envied the self-esteem which must surely be his. But Lancelot never believed he was good or nice. Under the grotesque, magnificent shell with a face like Quasimodo's, there was shame and self-loathing which had been planted there when he was tiny, by something which it is now too late to trace.
T.H. WhiteI know hardly anything about Galahad except that everybody dislikes him."
"Dislikes him?"
"They complain about him being inhuman."
Lancelot considered his cup.
"He is inhuman," he said at last. "But why should he be human? Are angels supposed to be human?
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