The only thing Christianity can not be...is moderately important.

If we will not learn to eat the only food that the universe grows...then we must starve eternally.

She did not shut it properly because she knew that it is very silly to shut oneself into a wardrobe, even if it is not a magic one.

Thus we have now for many centuries triumphed over nature to the extent of making certain secondary characteristics of the male (such as the beard) disagreeable to nearly all the females—and there is more in that than you might suppose.

The very nature of Joy makes nonsense of our common distinction between having and wanting.

Friendship is...the sort of love one can imagine between angels.

A glimpse is not a vision. But to a man on a mountain road by night, a glimpse of the next three feet of road may matter more than a vision of the horizon.