Christianity thinks of human individuals not as mere members of a group or items in a list, but as organs in a body-different from one another and each contributing what no other could.

Man, even now, can do wonders to animals: my cat and dog live together in my house and seem to like it. It may have been one of man's functions to restore peace to the animal world, and if he had not joined the enemy he might have succeeded in doing so to an extent now hardly imaginable.

By gum,' said Digory, 'Don't I just wish I was big enough to punch your head!

'Being in love' first moved them to promise fidelity: this quieter love enables them to keep the promise.

Either the day must come when joy prevails and all the makers of misery are no longer able to infect it, or else, for ever and ever, the makers of misery can destroy in others the happiness they reject for themselves.

They stormed and jeered at one another in long meaningless words of about twenty syllables each.

To live in a fully predictable world is not to be a man.