If nothing in this world satisfies me, perhaps it is because I was made for another world.

We are born helpless. As soon as we are fully conscious we discover loneliness. We need others physically, emotionally, and intellectually. We need them if we are to know anything, even ourselves.

It is so fatally easy to confuse an aesthetic appreciation of the spiritual life with the life itself-to dream that you have waked, washed, and dressed and then to find yourself still in bed.

A real desire to believe all the good you can of others and to make others as comfortable as you can will solve most of the problems.

Give up yourself, and you will find your real self. Lose your life and you will save it.

Your Majesty would have a perfect right to strike off his head," said Peridan. "Such an assault as he made puts him on a level with assassins." "It is very true," said Edmund. "But even a traitor may mend. I have known one that did." And he looked very thoughtful.

Nothing is more characteristically juvenile than contempt for juvenility. . . youth's characteristic chronological snobbery.