If you are really a product of a materialistic universe, how is it that you don't feel at home there?

The Calormens have dark faces and long beards. They wear flowing robes and orange-colored turbans, and they are a wise, wealthy, courteous, cruel and ancient people. They bowed most politely to Caspian and paid him long compliments all about the fountains of prosperity irrigating the gardens of prudence and virtue --and things like that-- but of course what they wanted was the money they had paid.

What we call Man's power over Nature turns out to be a power exercised by some men over other men with Nature as its instrument.

It is that of an unsatisfied desire which is itself more desirable than any other satisfaction.

It is hardly complimentary to God that we should choose him as an alternative to hell.

No book is really worth reading at the age of ten which is not equally – and often far more – worth reading at the age of fifty and beyond.

Much is expected from those to whom much is given.