I have learned now that while those who speak about one's miseries usually hurt, those who keep silence hurt more.

I have no duty to be anyone's Friend and no man in the world has a duty to be mine. No claims, no shadow of necessity. Friendship is unnecessary, like philosophy, like art, like the universe itself (for God did not need to create). It has no survival value; rather it is one of those things which give value to survival.

Most of us know what we should expect to find in a dragon's lair, but, as I said before, Eustace had read only the wrong books. They had a lot to say about exports and imports and governments and drains, but they were weak on dragons.

God has paid us the intolerable compliment of loving us, in the deepest, most tragic, most inexorable sense.

Laziness means more work in the long run.

Oh, Adam’s sons, how cleverly you defend yourselves against all that might do you good!

One always feel better when one has made up one's mind.