Thus, and not otherwise, the world was made. Either something or nothing must depend on individual choices.

They say, 'The coward dies many times'; so does the beloved. Didn't the eagle find a fresh liver to tear in Prometheus every time it dined?

More like the real thing,' said the lord Digory softly. - The Last Battle

Of course language is not an infallible guide, but it contains, with all its defects, a good deal of stored insight and experience.

We must picture Hell as a state where everyone is perpetually concerned about his own dignity and advancement, where everyone has a grievance, and where everyone lives the deadly serious passions of envy, self-importance, and resentment.

How could an idiotic universe have produced creatures whose mere dreams are so much stronger, better, subtler than itself?

Laziness means more work in the long run.