Courage is rightly esteemed the first of human qualities... because it is the quality which guarantees all others.
To invent, you need a good imagination and a pile of junk.
As an elephant in the battlefield withstands arrows shot from bows all around, even so shall I endure abuse.
Imagination is more important than knowledge...
Minds, like bodies, will often fall into a pimpled, ill-conditioned state from mere excess of comfort.
Here is Edward Bear, coming downstairs now, bump, bump, bump, on the back of his head, behind Christopher Robin. It is, as far as he knows, the only way of coming downstairs, but sometimes he feels that there really is another way, if only he could stop bumping for a moment and think about it.
"It is hard to be brave," said Piglet, sniffing slightly, "when you're only a Very Small Animal."
How sweet to be a cloudFloating in the blue.
Pooh said good-bye affectionately to his fourteen pots of honey, and hoped they were fifteen; and he and Rabbit went out into the Forest.