There is something which unites magic and applied science (technology) while separating them from the "wisdom" of earlier ages. For the wise men of old, the cardinal problem of human life was how to conform the soul to objective reality, and the solution was wisdom, self-discipline , and virtue. For the modern, the cardinal problem is how to conform reality to the wishes of man, and the solution is a technique.

I will not be at the mercy of the telephone!

Watchin' and listenin' is the thing at present; not talking.

You can do more with a castle in a story than with the best cardboard castle that ever stood on a nursery table.

But courage, child: we are all between the paws of the true Aslan.

There is nothing indulgent about the Moral Law. It is as hard as nails. If God is like the Moral Law, then He is not soft.

The true enjoyments must be spontaneous and compulsive and look to no remoter end.