But do you really mean, Sir," said Peter, "that there could be other worlds-all over the place, just round the corner-like that?" "Nothing is more probable," said the Profesor, taking off his spectacles and beginning to polish them, while he muttered to himself, "I wonder what they do teach them at these schools.

You and I have need of the strongest spell that can be found to wake us from the evil enchantment of worldliness.

[God] will not be used as a convenience. Men or nations who think they can revive the Faith in order to make a good society might just as well think they can use the stairs of heaven as a shortcut to the nearest chemist's shop.

If a thing is free to be good it is also free to be bad. And free will is what has made evil possible. Why, then, did God give them free will? Because free will, though it makes evil possible, is also the only thing that makes possible any love or goodness or joy worth having.

We can never know what might have been but what is to come is another matter entirely

Not to be, but to seem, virtuous - it is a formula whose utility we all discovered in the nursery.

It is important early in life to acquire the power of reading sense wherever you happen to be.