You've no idea how good an old joke sounds when you take it out again after a rest of five or six hundred years.

By gum,' said Digory, 'Don't I just wish I was big enough to punch your head!

If you never take risks, you'll never accomplish great things. Everybody dies, but not everyone has lived.

If you thirst you may drink.

Here at last is the thing I was made for.

It is a serious thing to live in a society of possible Gods and Goddesses. To remember that the dullest, and most uninteresting person you can talk to may one day be a creature which, if you saw it now, you would be strongly tempted to worship.

Hope is one of the Theological virtues. This means that a continual looking forward to the eternal world is not (as some modern people think) a form of escapism or wishful thinking, but one of the things a Christian is meant to do. It does not mean that we are to leave the present world as it is. If you read history you will find that the Christians who did most for the present world were just those who thought most of the next.