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

Holiness is irresistible. If even 10% of the world's population had it the whole world would be converted and happy before the year's end.

Here. All of you. And you, doorkeeper. No one is to be let out of the house today. And anyone I catch talking about this young lady will be first beaten to death and then burned alive and after that be kept on bread and water for six weeks. There.

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.

When a man is getting better he understands more and more clearly the evil that is still left in him. When a man is getting worse he understands his own badness less and less.

and the whole forest would give itself up to jollification for weeks on end.

This was the very reason why you were brought to Narnia, that by knowing me here for a little, you may know me better there.