Lily Baker > Lily's Quotes

“I declare after all there is no enjoyment like reading! How much sooner one tires of any thing than of a book! -- When I have a house of my own, I shall be miserable if I have not an excellent library.”
― Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice

“The mind is not a vessel to be filled, but a fire to be kindled.”
― Plutarch

“The world is a book and those who do not travel read only one page.”
― St. Augustine

“Remember that there is always some good in people who love flowers.”
― Esther Hautzig, The Endless Steppe: Growing Up in Siberia

“I am [in your world].’ said Aslan. ‘But there I have another name. You must learn to know me by that name. This was the very reason why you were brought to Narnia, that by knowing me here for a little, you may know me better there.”
― C.S. Lewis, The Chronicles of Narnia

“Nothing that we do, is done in vain. I believe, with all my soul, that we shall see triumph.”
― Charles Dickens, A Tale of Two Cities