I am suffering incessant temptations to uncharitable thoughts at present; one of those black moods in which nearly all one's friends seem to be selfish or even false. And how terrible that there should be even a kind of pleasure in thinking evil.

He (God) loved us not because we are lovable, but because He is love.

Jesus was either a Liar, a Lunatic, or Lord

We were talking of DRAGONS, Tolkien and I In a Berkshire bar. The big workman Who had sat silent and sucked his pipe All the evening, from his empty mug With gleaming eye glanced towards us: "I seen 'em myself!" he said fiercely.

And since we cannot deceive the whole human race all the time, it is most important thus to cut every generation off from all others; for where learning makes a free commerce between the ages there is always the danger that the characteristic errors of one may be corrected by the characteristic truths of another.

It may be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies.

His face had become very red and his mouth and fingers were sticky. He did not look either clever or handsome, whatever the Queen might say.