Suspicion often creates what it suspects.

Dearest Daughter. I knew you would not be long in coming to me. Joy shall be yours.

Long before history began we men have got together apart from the women and done things. We had time.

The Future is, of all things, the thing least like eternity. It is the most temporal part of time--for the Past is frozen and no longer flows, and the Present is all lit up with eternal rays.

One of the things that distinguishes man from the other animals is that he wants to know things, wants to find out what reality is like, simply for the sake of knowing. When that desire is completely quenched in anyone, I think he has become something less than human.

By the very act of arguing, you awake the patient's reason; and once it is awake, who can foresee the result?

Last year, when he had been staying with the Pevensies, he had managed to hear them all talking of Narnia and he loved teasing them about it. He thought of course that they were making it all up; and as he was far too stupid to make anything up himself, he did not approve of that.