He liked books if they were books of information and had pictures of grain elevators or of fat foreign children doing exercises in model schools.
C. S. LewisIf you never take risks, you'll never accomplish great things. Everybody dies, but not everyone has lived.
C. S. LewisThe real trouble is that 'kindness' is a quality fatally easy to attribute to ourselves on quite inadequate grounds. Everyone feels benevolent if nothing happens to be annoying him at the moment. Thus a man easily comes to console himself for all his other vices by a conviction that 'his heart's in the right place' and 'he wouldn't hurt a fly,' though in fact he has never made the slightest sacrifice for a fellow creature. We think we are kind when we are only happy: it is not so easy, on the same grounds, to imagine oneself temperate, chaste, or humble.
C. S. LewisThose who torment us for our own good will torment us without end, for they do so with the approval of their own conscience.
C. S. Lewis