Nature never taught me that there exists a God of glory and of infinite majesty. I had to learn that in other ways. But nature gave the word glory a meaning for me. I still do not know where else I could have found one.

You can't really study people; you can only get to know them.

He that but looketh on a plate of ham and eggs to lust after it hath already committed breakfast with it in his heart

Really great moral teachers never do introduce new moralities: it is quacks and cranks who do that.

This is my password," said the King as he drew his sword. "The light is dawning, the lie broken. Now guard thee, miscreant, for I am Tirian of Narnia.

And I say also this. I do not think the forest would be so bright, nor the water so warm, nor love so sweet, if there were no danger in the lakes.

I gave in, and admitted that God was God.