For the wise men of old the cardinal problem had been how to conform the soul to reality. For magic and applied science alike the problem is how to subdue reality to the wishes of men.

Grief is like a long valley, a winding valley where any bend may reveal a totally new landscape.

Nothing is wonderful except in the abnormal, and nothing is abnormal until we have grasped the norm.

That world is ended, as if it had never been. Let the race of Adam and Eve take warning.

Those who do not think about their own sins make up for it by thinking incessantly about the sins of others.

It takes courage to live through suffering; and it takes honesty to observe it.

This is the land of Narnia,' said the Faun, 'where we are now; all that lies between the lamp-post and the great castle of Cair Paravel on the eastern sea.