The very idea of freedom presupposes some objective moral law which overarches rulers and ruled alike...Unless we return to the crude and nursery-like belief in objective values, we perish.

Once a king or queen of Narnia, always a king or queen of Narnia.

It is a good rule after reading a new book, never to allow yourself another new one till you have read an old one in between.

Homemaking is surely in reality the most important work in the world.

You know what this is, I suppose. Religious melancholia. Stop while there is time. If you dive, you dive into insanity.

I was the lion who forced you to join with Aravis. I was the cat who comforted you among the houses of the dead. I was the lion who drove the jackals from you while you slept. I was the lion who gave the horses the new strength of fear for the last mill so that you should reach King Lune in time. And I was the lion you do not remember who pushed the boat in which you lay, a child near death, so that it came to shore where a man sat, wakeful at midnight, to receive you.

The next best thing to being wise oneself is to live in a circle of those who are.