Education without values, as useful as it is, seems rather to make man a more clever devil.
C. S. LewisWhen we force a boy to be a mediocrity in a dozen subjects we destroy his standards, perhaps for life.
C. S. LewisWe delight to praise what we enjoy because the praise not merely expresses but completes the enjoyment; it is its appointed consummation. It is not out of compliment that lovers keep on telling one another how beautiful they are; the delight is incomplete till it is expressed.
C. S. LewisAn almost perfect relationship with his father was the earthly root of all his wisdom. From his own father, he said, he first learned that Fatherhood must be at the core of the universe. [speaking of George MacDonald]
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