They were really getting quite fond of their strange pet and hoped that Aslan would allow them to keep it. The cleverer ones were quite sure by now that at least some of the noises which came out of his mouth had a meaning. They christened him Brandy because he made that noise so often.

Am I lost or just less found?

If I had really cared as I thought I did about the sorrows of the world I should not have been so overwhelmed when my own sorrow came- I thought I trusted the rope until it mattered to me whether it would bear me, now it matters and I find I didn't.

That's the worst of girls," said Edmund to Peter and the Dwarf. "They never can carry a map in their heads." "That's because our heads have something inside them," said Lucy.

One of the marks of a certain type of bad man is that he cannot give up a thing himself without wanting everyone else to give it up.

It still remains true that no justification of virtue will enable a man to be virtuous.

A clever arrangement of bad eggs will never make a good omelet.