There is a kind of happiness and wonder that makes you serious. It is too good to waste on jokes.

Let there be wicked kings and beheadings, battles and dungeons, giants and dragons, and let the villans be soundly killed at the end of the book. I think it is possible that by confining your child to the blameless stories of life in which nothing at all alarming ever happens, you would fail to banish the terrors, and would succeed in banishing all that can ennoble them or make them endurable.

Love is unselfishly choosing for another's highest good.

You cannot love a fellow creature fully till you love God.

We must stop regarding unpleasant or unexpected things as interruptions of real life. The truth is that interruptions are real life.

Those who would most scornfully repudiate Christianity as a mere "opiate of the people" have a contempt for the rich, that is, for all mankind except the poor.

This is the land of Narnia,' said the Faun, 'where we are now; all that lies between the lamp-post and the great castle of Cair Paravel on the eastern sea.