As long as he doesn't convert it into action, it does not matter how much a man thinks about his repentance.

Oh, Lor!' said the boy, sitting down on the grassy bank at the edge of the shrubbery and very quickly getting up again because the grass was soaking wet. His name was unfortunately Eustace Scrubb but he wasn't a bad sort.

When things go wrong, you'll find they usually go on getting worse for some time; but when things once start going right they often go on getting better and better.

We may be sure that the characteristic blindness of the twentieth century [...] lies where we have never suspected it [...] The only palliative is [...] by reading old books. [...] the books of the future would be just as good [...], but unfortunately we cannot get at them.

The moment good taste knows itself, some of its goodness is lost.

In the science, Evolution is a theory about changes; in the myth it is a fact about improvements.

Humour is...the all-consoling and...the all-excusing, grace of life.