Girls aren't very good at keeping maps in their brains", said Edmund, "That's because we've got something in them", replied Lucy.

It's all love or sex these days. Friendship is almost as quaint and outdated a notion as chastity. Soon friends will be like the elves and the pixies - fabulous mythical creatures from a distant past.

Do not cite the Deep Magic to me, Witch. I was there when it was written.

Love may forgive all infirmities and love still in spite of them: but Love cannot cease to will their removal.

For Narnia and for Aslan!

Till that word can be dug out of us, why should they hear the babble that we think we mean? How can they meet us face to face till we have faces?

The task of the modern educator is not to cut down jungles but to irrigate deserts. The right defence against false sentiments is to inculcate just sentiments. By starving the sensibility of our pupils we only make them easier prey to the propagandist when he comes. For famished nature will be avenged and a hard heart is no infallible protection against a soft head.