Most people spend most of their lives doing neither what they want to be doing nor what they ought to be doing.

In the midst of a world of light and love, of song and feast and dance, [Lucifer] could find nothing to think of more interesting than his own prestige.

A voice had begun to sing. It was very far away and Digory found it hard to decide from what direction it was coming. Sometimes it seemed to come from all directions at once. Sometimes he almost thought it was coming out of the earth beneath them. Its lower notes were deep enough to be the voice of the earth herself. There were no words. It was hardly a tune. But it was beyond comparison, the most beautiful sound he had ever heard.

Are the gods not just?' 'Oh no, child. What would become us us if they were?

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.

No good work is done anywhere without aid from the Father of Lights.

If naturalism were true then all thoughts whatever would be wholly the result of irrational causes. It cuts its own throat.