A pipe gives a wise man time to think and a fool something to stick in his mouth.

If we accept Heaven we shall not be able to retain even the smallest and most intimate souvenirs of Hell.

You know what this is, I suppose. Religious melancholia. Stop while there is time. If you dive, you dive into insanity.

I object to that remark very strongly! - The Magician's Nephew

When the most important things in our life happen we quite often do not know, at the moment, what is going on. A man does not always say to himself, "hullo! i'm growing up." It is only when he looks back that he realises what has happened and recognises it as what people call "growing up.

Spying on people by magic is the same as spying on them in any other way.

When I became a man I put away childish things, including the fear of childishness and the desire to be very grown up.