Without the aid of trained emotions the intellect is powerless against the animal organism.

When you are not feeling particularly friendly but know you ought to be, the best thing you can do, very often, is to put on a friendly manner and behave as if you were a nicer person than you actually are. And in a few minutes, as we have all noticed, you will be really feeling friendlier than you were.

At least he went on saying this till Aslan had loaded him up with three dwarfs, one dryad, two rabbits, and a hedgehog, that steadied him a bit.

I'm a beast, I am, and a Badger what's more. We don't change. We hold on.

We have had enough, once and for all, of Hedonism--the gloomy philosophy which says that Pleasure is the only good.

All day I have been tossed and whirled in a preposterous happiness; was it an elf in the blood? Or a bird in the brain? Or even part of the cloudily crested, fifty-league-long, loud, uplifted wave of a journeying angels transit over and through my heart?

Why must holy places be dark places?