To interest is the first duty of art; no other excellences will ever begin to compensate for failure in this.

True humility is more like self-forgetfulness than false modesty.

I am struck here by the curious mixture of justice and injustice in our lives. We are blamed for our real faults but usually not on the right occasions.

There is no use saying you chose to lie down when it has become impossible to stand up.

Peter, High King of Narnia," said Aslan. "Shut the Door.

Who can endure a doctrine which would allow only dentists to say whether our teeth were aching, only cobblers to say whether our shoes hurt us, and only governments to tell us whether we were being well governed?

When we are wholly His we will be more ourselves than ever.