The Princess and Curdie

A mountain is a strange and awful thing. In old times, without knowing so much of their strangeness and awfulness as we do, people were yet more afraid of mountains. But then somehow they had not come to see how beautifu…

But it was little to Curdie that men who did not know what he was about should not approve of his proceedings.

Could you not give me some sign, or tell me something about you that never changes, or some other way to know you, or thing to know you by? ' No, Curdie: that would be to keep you from knowing me. You must know me in qui…

Remember, then, that whoever does not mean good is always in danger of harm. But I try to give everybody fair play, and those that are in the wrong are in far more need of it always than those who are in the right: they…

There is this difference between the growth of some human beings and that of others: in the one case it is a continuous dying, in the other a continuous resurrection.