If He who in Himself can lack nothing, chooses to need us, it is because we need to be needed.

Badness is only spoiled goodness.

I have swallowed up girls and boys, women and men, kings and emperors, cities and realms," said the Lion. It didn't say this as if it were boasting, nor as if it were sorry, nor as if it were angry. It just said it.

Children are not deceived by fairy-tales; they are often and gravely deceived by school-stories. Adults are not deceived by science-fiction ; they can be deceived by the stories in the women's magazines.

We treat our dogs as if they were "almost human": that is why they really become "almost human" in the end.

Every age has its own outlook. It is specially good at seeing certain truths and specially liable to make certain mistakes. We all, therefore, need the books that will correct the characteristic mistake of our own period. And that means the old books.

We long for more and God's promise is that there is more awaiting us. More to delight us than we will ever exhaust.