Pain insists upon being attended to. God whispers to us in our pleasures, speaks in our consciences, but shouts in our pains. It is his megaphone to rouse a deaf world.

Do not by any means destroy yourself, for if you live you may yet have good fortune, but all the dead are dead like.

Do not look sad. We shall meet soon again." "Please, Aslan", said Lucy,"what do you call soon?" "I call all times soon" said Aslan; and instantly he was vanished away.

A man is never so proud as when striking an attitude of humility.

If I find in myself a desire which no experience in this world can satisfy, the most probable explanation is that I was made for another world.

In reality, moral rules are directions for running the human machine. Every moral rule is there to prevent a breakdown, or a strain, or a friction, in the running of that machine. That is why these rules at first seem to be constantly interfering with our natural inclinations.

Our problem with desire is that we want too little.