For his mind was full of forlorn hopes, death-or-glory charges, and last stands.

We are born helpless. As soon as we are fully conscious we discover loneliness.

The essence of religion, in my view, is the thirst for an end higher than natural ends.

But however happy you are feeling, you can't talk with your mouth full of snow.

Most of us know what we should expect to find in a dragon's lair, but, as I said before, Eustace had read only the wrong books. They had a lot to say about exports and imports and governments and drains, but they were weak on dragons.

You can get a large audience together for a strip-tease act—that is, to watch a girl undress on the stage. Now suppose you come to a country where you could fill a theatre by simply bringing a covered plate on to the stage and then slowly lifting the cover so as to let every one see, just before the lights went out, that it contained a mutton chop or a bit of bacon, would you not think that in that country something had gone wrong with the appetite for food?

Nothing that you have not given away will ever be really yours.