When a man is getting better he understands more and more clearly the evil that is still left in him. When a man is getting worse he understands his own badness less and less.

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

Some people talk as if meeting the gaze of absolute goodness would be fun. They need to think again.

It is always the novice who exaggerates.

Nothing that you have not given away will ever be really yours.

Am I to understand,' said Reepicheep to Lucy after a long stare at Eustace, 'That this singularly discourteous person is under your Majesty's protection? Because, if not--

Shall I ever be able to read that story again; the one I couldn't remember? Will you tell it to me, Aslan? Oh do,do,do." "Indeed,yes, I will tell it to you for years and years. But now, come. We must meet the master of this house.