He liked books if they were books of information and had pictures of grain elevators or of fat foreign children doing exercises in model schools.

No mind is so good that it does not need another mind to counter and equal it, and to save it from conceit and bigotry and folly

Whenever you are fed up with life, start writing: ink is the great cure for all human ills, as I have found out long ago.

No one ever told me that grief felt so like fear.

We're free Narnians, Hwin and I, and I suppose, if you're running away to Narnia you want to be one too. In that case Hwin isn't your horse any longer. One might just as well say you're her human.

The task of the modern educator is not to cut down jungles, but to irrigate deserts.

The real job of every moral teacher is to keep bringing us back to the simple principles, which we're so anxious not to see.