They stormed and jeered at one another in long meaningless words of about twenty syllables each.

Do not by any means destroy yourself, for if you live you may yet have good fortune, but all the dead are dead like.

The human mind has no more power of inventing a new value than of planting a new sun in the sky or a new primary color in the spectrum.

One of the marks of a certain type of bad man is that he cannot give up a thing himself without wanting every one else to give it up. That is not the Christian way. An individual Christian may see fit to give up all sorts of things for special reasons--marriage, or meat, or beer, or the cinema; but the moment he starts saying the things are bad in themselves, or looking down his nose at other people who do use them, he has taken the wrong turning.

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--

The Psalmists in telling everyone to praise God are doing what all men do when they speak of what they care about.

Growing maturity is marked by the increasing liberties we take with our travelling... we made the discovery (some people never make it) that real books can be taken on a journey and that hours of golden reading can so be added to its other delights.