Even in literature and art, no man who bothers about originality will ever be original: whereas if you simply try to tell the truth (without caring twopence how often it has been told before) you will, nine times out of ten, become original without ever having noticed it.

We who defend Christianity find ourselves constantly opposed not by the irreligion of our headers but by their real religion.

Surely what a man does when he is taken off his guard is the best evidence for what sort of man he is.

Grief is like a long valley, a winding valley where any bend may reveal a totally new landscape.

Well,' said Ransom, 'if it is a delusion, it's a pretty stubborn one.

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.

Either the day must come when joy prevails and all the makers of misery are no longer able to infect it, or else, for ever and ever, the makers of misery can destroy in others the happiness they reject for themselves.