A society in which conjugal infidelity is tolerated must always be in the long run a society adverse to women.

As the king governs by his executive, so Reason in man must rule the mere appetites by means of the 'spirited element.'

If we really think that home is elsewhere and that this life is a wandering to find home, why should we not look forward to the arrival?

When Christ died, He died for you individually just as much as if you had been the only person in the world.

You never know how much you really believe anything until its truth or falsehood becomes a matter of life and death to you.

I was the lion who forced you to join with Aravis. I was the cat who comforted you among the houses of the dead. I was the lion who drove the jackals from you while you slept. I was the lion who gave the horses the new strength of fear for the last mill so that you should reach King Lune in time. And I was the lion you do not remember who pushed the boat in which you lay, a child near death, so that it came to shore where a man sat, wakeful at midnight, to receive you.

Each generation exercises power over its successors: and each, in so far as it modifies the environment bequeathed to it and rebels against tradition, resists and limits the power of its predecessors.