She did not shut it properly because she knew that it is very silly to shut oneself into a wardrobe, even if it is not a magic one.
C. S. LewisIt is only our bad temper that we put down to being tired or worried or hungry; we put our good temper down to ourselves.
C. S. LewisIf one has to choose between reading the new books and reading the old, one must choose the old: not because they are necessarily better but because they contain precisely those truths of which our own age is neglectful.
C. S. LewisI 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.
C. S. Lewis