Gratitude looks to the Past and love to the Present; fear, avarice, lust, and ambition look ahead.

What does not satisfy when we find it, was not the thing we were desiring.

My son, by all means desist from kicking the venerable and enlightened Vizier: for as a costly jewel retains its value even if hidden in a dung-hill, so old age and discretion are to be respected even in the vile persons of our subjects. Desist therefore, and tell us what you desire and propose.

You'll never make a good impression on other people until you stop thinking what sort of impression you make.

You must picture me alone in that room in Magdalen, night after night, feeling, whenever my mind lifted even for a second from my work, the steady, unrelenting approach of Him whom I so earnestly desired not to meet. That which I greatly feared had at last come upon me. In the Trinity Term of 1929 I gave in, and admitted that God was God, and knelt and prayed: perhaps, that night, the most dejected and reluctant convert in all England.

Onward and Upward! To Narnia and the North!

Atheism turns out to be too simple. If the whole universe has no meaning, we should never have found out that it has no meaning.