You can begin as if nothing had ever gone wrong. White as snow.

Never use abstract nouns when concrete ones will do. If you mean “More people died” don’t say “Mortality rose.

The Christian has a great advantage over other men, not by being less fallen than they, nor less doomed to live in a fallen world, but by knowing that he is a fallen man in a fallen world.

Ah, poor Pole. It's been to much for her, this last bit. Turned her head, I shouldn't wonder. She's beginning to see things.

By the very act of arguing, you awake the patient's reason; and once it is awake, who can foresee the result?

The pain I feel now is the happiness I had before. That's the deal.

Yes, I know,' interrupted Puddleglum. 'And few return to the sunlit lands. You needn't say it again. You are a chap of one idea, aren't you?