To love at all is to be vulnerable. Love anything and your heart will be wrung.

[God] will not be used as a convenience. Men or nations who think they can revive the Faith in order to make a good society might just as well think they can use the stairs of heaven as a shortcut to the nearest chemist's shop.

Do not by any means destroy yourself, for if you live you may yet have good fortune, but all the dead are dead like.

You cannot study Pleasure in the moment of the nuptial embrace, nor repentance while repenting, nor analyze the nature of humour while roaring with laughter.

First be sure that you know exactly what you want to say. Then be sure you have said exactly that.

Do you mean to say," asked Caspian, "that you three come from a round world (round like a ball) and you've never told me! It's really too bad for you. Because we have fairy-tales in which there are round worlds and I have always loved them … Have you ever been to the parts where people walk about upside-down?" Edmund shook his head. "And it isn't like that," he added. "There's nothing particularly exciting about a round world when you're there.

You are certainly under the guidance of the Holy Ghost or you wouldn't have come where you now are.