Friendship is unnecessary, like philosophy, like art... It has no survival value; rather it is one of those things that give value to survival.

No people find each other more absurd than lovers

At a well in a yard they met a man who was beating a boy. The stick burst into a flower in the mans hand. He tried to drop it, but it stuck to his hand. His arm became a branch, his body the trunk of a tree, his feet took root.

No man can be an exile if he remembers that all the world is one city.

When the author walks onto the stage, the play is over

Those who do not think about their own sins make up for it by thinking incessantly about the sins of others.

Most of us, I suppose, have a secret country but for most of us it is only an imaginary country. Edmund and Lucy were luckier than other people in that respect.