It is by human avarice or human stupidity, not by the churlishness of nature, that we have poverty and overwork.

Fine feelings, new insights, greater interest in ʿreligionʾ mean nothing unless they make our actual behavior better.

Perfect humility dispenses with modesty.

Edmund, give a special goodbye to Trumpkin for me. He's been a brick.

The Calormens have dark faces and long beards. They wear flowing robes and orange-colored turbans, and they are a wise, wealthy, courteous, cruel and ancient people. They bowed most politely to Caspian and paid him long compliments all about the fountains of prosperity irrigating the gardens of prudence and virtue --and things like that-- but of course what they wanted was the money they had paid.

Forgiving and being forgiven are two names for the same thing. The important thing is that a discord has been resolved.

The worldly man treats certain people kindly because he 'likes' them: the Christian, trying to treat every one kindly, finds him liking more and more people as he goes on - including people he could not even have imagined himself liking at the beginning.