When I'm older I'll understand" said Lucy, " I am older and I don't think I want to understand", replied Edmund

How could an idiotic universe have produced creatures whose mere dreams are so much stronger, better, subtler than itself?

Do not look sad. We shall meet soon again." "Please, Aslan", said Lucy,"what do you call soon?" "I call all times soon" said Aslan; and instantly he was vanished away.

Not my idea of God, but God. Not my idea of H., but H. Yes, and also not my idea of my neighbour, but my neighbour. For don't we often make this mistake as regards people who are still alive -- who are with us in the same room? Talking and acting not to the man himself but to the picture -- almost the précis -- we've made of him in our own minds? And he has to depart from it pretty widely before we even notice the fact.

Has this world been so kind to you that you should leave with regret? There are better things ahead than any we leave behind.

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

One of the marks of a certain type of bad man is that he cannot give up a thing himself without wanting everyone else to give it up.