If nothing is self-evident, nothing can be proved. Similarly if nothing is obligatory for its own sake, nothing is obligatory at all.

Edmund, give a special goodbye to Trumpkin for me. He's been a brick.

One is given strength to bear what happens to one, but not the 100 and 1 different things that might happen.

Affection would not be affection if it was loudly and frequently expressed; to produce it in public is like getting your household furniture out for a move. It did very well in its place, but it looks shabby or tawdry or grotesque in the sunshine.

A powerful dragon crying its eyes out under the moon in a deserted valley is a sight and a sound hardly to be imagined.

If they won't write the kind of books we like to read we shall have to write them ourselves.

You die and die and then you are beyond death.