We may not be able to get certainty, but we can get probability, and half a loaf is better than no bread.

Aristotle said that some people were only fit to be slaves. I do not contradict him. But I reject slavery because I see no men fit to be masters.

God has infinite attention to spare for each one of us.

What the soul cries out for is the resurrection of the senses. Even in this life, matter would be nothing to us if it were not the source of sensations.

Where I come from, they don't think much of men who are bossed about by their wives.

Yes, I know,' interrupted Puddleglum. 'And few return to the sunlit lands. You needn't say it again. You are a chap of one idea, aren't you?

Those who have nothing can share nothing; those who are going nowhere can have no fellow-travellers.