The Foundling and Other Tales of Prydain Quotes

“For the odd thing about wisdom is the more you use it the more it grows; and the more you share, the more you gain. You'd be amazed how few understand that.”
― Lloyd Alexander, The Foundling and Other Tales of Prydain

“He learned that the lives of men are short and filled with pain, yet each one a priceless treasure, whether it be that of a prince or a pig-keeper. And, at the last, the book taught him that while nothing was certain, all was possible. "At the end of knowledge, wisdom begins, Dallben murmured. "And at the end of wisdom there is not grief, but hope.”
― Lloyd Alexander, The Foundling and Other Tales of Prydain

“In that moment, when the harp had been silenced, arose the songs of birds, the chiming of brooks, the humming of wind through grass and leaves; and all these voices took up the strands of melody, more beautiful than before.

And the Lord of Death fled in terror of life.”
― Lloyd Alexander, The Foundling and Other Tales of Prydain