Morality or duty never yet made a man happy in himself or dear to others.

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.

Hitherto the plans of the educationalists have achieved very little of what they attempted, and indeed we may well thank the beneficent obstinacy of real mothers, real nurses, and (above all) real children for preserving the human race in such sanity as it still possesses.

Got to start by finding it, have we? Can't start by looking for it, I suppose?

When I have learned to love God better than my earthly dearest, I shall love my earthly dearest better than I do now.

God is no fonder of intellectual slackers than He is of any other slacker.

God sometimes seems to speak to us most intimately when he catches us, as it were, off our guard.