An hour's terror is better than a lifetime of timidity.

Timidity is a fault for which it is dangerous to reprove persons whom we wish to correct of it

There was still an hour or two of daylight - even though clouds admitted only a greyish light upon the world, and his Uncle Timothy's house was by nature friendly to gloom.

("Out Of The Deep")

Do diddle di do, / Poor Jim Jay / Got stuck fast / In Yesterday.

Once a man strays out of the common herd, he's more likely to meet wolves in the thickets than angels.

Poor sleepers should endeavor to compose themselves. Tampering with empty space, stirring up echoes in pitch-black pits of darkness is scarcely sedative.

("Out Of The Deep")