Whenever you are about to find fault with someone, ask yourself the following question: What fault of mine most nearly resembles the one I am about to criticize?

For it is in your power to retire into yourself whenever you choose.

Be content to seem what you really are

But suppose your dæmon settles in a shape you don't like?

Well, then, you're discontented, en't you? There's plenty of folk as'd like to have a lion as a dæmon and they end up with a poodle. And till they learn to be satisfied with what they are, they're going to be fretful about it. Waste of feeling, that is.

But it didn't seem to Lyra that she would ever grow up.

Don't try to tell me what I am because I know what I am not

Look well into thyself; there is a source of strength which will always spring up if thou wilt always look.