It matters enormously if I alienate anyone from the truth.

It will not bother me in the hour of death to reflect that I have been "had for a sucker" by any number of imposters but it would be a torment to know that one had refused even one person in need.

She did not shut it properly because she knew that it is very silly to shut oneself into a wardrobe, even if it is not a magic one.

If they won't write the kind of books we like to read we shall have to write them ourselves.

God, who needs nothing, loves into existence wholly superfluous creatures in order that he may love and perfect them.

When once a man is launched on such an adventure as this, he must bid farewell to hopes and fears, otherwise death or deliverance will both come too late to save his honor and his reason. Ho, my beauties!

Everything that is not eternal is worthless in eternity.