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?

If the universe is so bad...how on earth did human beings ever come to attribute it to the activity of a wise and good Creator?

Onward and Upward! To Narnia and the North!

Jesus produced mainly three effects: hatred, terror, adoration. There was no trace of people expressing mild approval.

..(T)here are two opposite reasons for being a democrat. You may think all men so good that they deserve a share in the government of the commonwealth, and so wise that the commonwealth needs their advice. That is, in my opinion, the false, romantic doctrine of democracy. On the other hand, you may believe fallen men to be so wicked that not one of them can be trusted with any irresponsible power over his fellows.

Could one start a Stagnation Party-which at General Elections would boast that during its term of office no event of the least importance had taken place?

There was a boy called Eustace Clarence Scrubb, and he almost deserved it.