Hail Lord, ...Loose my chains.

Peter, High King of Narnia," said Aslan. "Shut the Door.

If you had felt yourself sufficient, it would have been a proof that you were not.

The idea which...shuts out the Second Coming from our minds, the idea of the world slowly ripening to perfection, is a myth, not a generalization from experience.

One of the most dangerous errors is that civilization is automatically bound to increase and spread. The lesson of history is the opposite; civilization is a rarity, attained with difficulty and easily lost. The normal state of humanity is barbarism, just as the normal surface of the planet is salt water. Land looms large in our imagination and civilization in history books, only because sea and savagery are to us less interesting.

It matters enormously if I alienate anyone from the truth.

Autumn is really the best of the seasons