I believe that if a million chances were likely to do good, they would be given.

The distinction between pretending you are better than you are and beginning to be better in reality is finer than moral sleuth hounds conceive.

You have a traitor there, Aslan," said the Witch. Of course everyone present knew that she meant Edmund. But Edmund had got past thinking about himself after all he'd been through and after the talk he'd had that morning. He just went on looking at Aslan. It didn't seem to matter what the Witch said.

The true enjoyments must be spontaneous and compulsive and look to no remoter end.

It takes courage to live through suffering; and it takes honesty to observe it.

They were pretty tired by now of course; but not what I’d call bitterly tired – only slow and feeling very dreamy and tired as one does when one is coming to the end of a long day in the open.

Only a real risk tests the reality of a belief.