I have no duty to be anyone's Friend and no man in the world has a duty to be mine. No claims, no shadow of necessity. Friendship is unnecessary, like philosophy, like art, like the universe itself (for God did not need to create). It has no survival value; rather it is one of those things which give value to survival.

No man can be an exile if he remembers that all the world is one city.

Wouldn't he know without being asked?' said Polly. 'I've no doubt he would,' said the Horse (still with his mouth full). 'But I've a sort of an idea he likes to be asked.

If God were a Kantian, who would not have us till we came to Him from the purest and best motives, who could be saved?

I have at last come to the end of the Faerie Queene: and though I say "at last", I almost wish he had lived to write six books more as he had hoped to do — so much have I enjoyed it.

When I'm older I'll understand" said Lucy, " I am older and I don't think I want to understand", replied Edmund

Whatever you do, He will make good of it. But not the good He had prepared for you if you had obeyed him.