There is, hidden or flaunted, a sword between the sexes till an entire marriage reconciles them.

Friendship (as the ancients saw) can be a school of virtue, but also (as they did not see) a school of vice. It is ambivalent. It makes good men better and bad men worse.

This was the very reason why you were brought to Narnia, that by knowing me here for a little, you may know me better there.

If God is satisfied with the work, the work may be satisfied with itself.

When I was ten, I read fairy tales in secret and would have been ashamed if I had been found doing so. Now that I am fifty, I read them openly. When I became a man I put away childish things, including the fear of childishness and the desire to be very grown up.

Nothing can seem extraordinary until you have discovered what is ordinary.

But I remember more dearly autumn afternoons in bottoms that lay intensely silent under old great trees