Friendship arises out of mere Companionship when two or more of the companions discover that they have in common some insight or interest or even taste which the others do not share and which, till that moment, each believed to be his own unique treasure (or burden).

Lucy woke out of the deepest sleep you can imagine, with the feeling that the voice she liked best in the world had been calling her name.

What would really satisfy us would be a God who said of anything we happened to like doing, 'What does it matter so long as they are contented?'

One always feel better when one has made up one's mind.

According to Christian teachers, the essential vice, the utmost evil, is Pride.

Oh Trees, Trees, Trees...wake. Don't you remember it? Don't you remember me? Dryads and hamadryads, come out, come [out] to me.

The process of living seems to consist in coming to realize truths so ancient and simple that, if stated, they sound like barren platitudes.