Enough had been thought, and said, and felt, and imagined. It was about time that something should be done.

Many people think their prayers are never answered because it is the answered ones they forget.

A man can't be always defending the truth; there must be a time to feed on it.

A moderately bad man knows he is not very good: a thoroughly bad man thinks he is alright. This is common sense really. You understand sleep when you are awake, not well you are sleeping.

Our experience is coloured through and through by books and plays and the cinema, and it takes patience and skill to disentangle the things we have really learned from life for ourselves.

Youth and age touch only the surface of our lives.

Last year, when he had been staying with the Pevensies, he had managed to hear them all talking of Narnia and he loved teasing them about it. He thought of course that they were making it all up; and as he was far too stupid to make anything up himself, he did not approve of that.