What does not satisfy when we find it, was not the thing we were desiring.

As long as this deliberate refusal to understand things from above, even where such understanding is possible, continues, it is idle to talk of any final victory over materialism.

Joy is the serious business of heaven. Our merriment must be between people who take each other seriously.

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.

This is one of the miracles of love: It gives a power of seeing through its own enchantments and yet not being disenchanted.

When we force a boy to be a mediocrity in a dozen subjects we destroy his standards, perhaps for life.

Literary experience heals the wound, without undermining the privilege, of individuality.