But what manner of use would it be ploughing through that darkness?' asked Drinian. Use?' replied Reepicheep. 'Use, Captain?' If you mean by filling our bellies or our purses, I confess it will be no use at all. So far as I know we did not set sail to look for things useful but to seek honour and adventures. And here is as great an adventure as I have ever heard of, and here, if we turn back, no little impeachment of all our honours.

Wouldn't he know without being asked?' said Polly. 'I've no doubt he would,' said the Horse (still with his mouth full). 'But I've a sort of an idea he likes to be asked.

Unless Christianity is wholly false, the perception of ourselves which we have in moments of shame must be the only true one.

Everything that is not eternal is worthless in eternity.

The real problem is not why some pious, humble, believing people suffer, but why some do not.

Who will take medicine unless he knows he is in the grip of disease?

We are not merely imperfect creatures who must be improved; we are rebels who must lay down our arms.