If I find in myself a desire which no experience in this world can satisfy, the most probable explanation is that I was made for another world.

This was the very reason why you were brought to Narnia, that by knowing me here for a little, you may know me better there.

Art can teach without at all ceasing to be art.

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

Things never happen the same way twice.

That is the key to history. Terrific energy is expended - civilizations are built up - excellent institutions devised; but each time something goes wrong. Some fatal flaw always brings the selfish and cruel people to the top, and then it all slides back into misery and ruin. In fact, the machine conks. It seems to start up all right and runs a few yards, and then it breaks down.

But he always licked to get visitors alone in the billiard room and tell them stories about a mysterious lady, a foreign royalty, with whom he had driven about London. 'A devilish temper she had,' he would say. 'But she was a dem fine woman, sir, a dem fine woman.