Even in this world of course it is the stupidest children who are most childish and the stupidest grown-ups who are most grown-up.

Remember that all worlds draw to an end and that noble death is a treasure which no one is too poor to buy.

You are guilty of no evil, Ransom of Thulcandra, except a little fearfulness. For that, the journey you go on is your pain, and perhaps your cure: for you must be either mad or brave before it is ended.

I was wondering — I mean — could there be some mistake? Because nobody called me and Scrubb, you know. It was we who asked to come here. You would not have called me unless I had been calling you.

It takes courage to live through suffering; and it takes honesty to observe it.

I prefer being honest to being 'honest to God.'

A man who is eating or lying with his wife or preparing to go to sleep in humility, thankfulness and temperance, is, by Christian standards, in an infinitely higher state than one who is listening to Bach or reading Plato in a state of pride.