Every age has its own outlook. It is specially good at seeing certain truths and specially liable to make certain mistakes. We all, therefore, need the books that will correct the characteristic mistake of our own period. And that means the old books.

Giant Wimbleweather burst into one of those not very intelligent laughs to which the nicer sort of Giants are so liable. He checked himself at once and looked as grace as a turnip by the time Reepicheep discovered where the noise came from.

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

A cold, self-righteous prig who goes regularly to church may be far nearer to Hell than a prostitute.

Forgiveness does not mean excusing.

For the power of Man to make himself what he pleases means... the power of some men to make other men what THEY please.

A society where the simple many obey the few seers can live; a society where all were seers could live even more fully. But a society where the mass is still simple and the seers are no longer attended to can achieve only superficiality, baseness, ugliness, and in the end extinction. On or back we must go: to stay here is death.