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

You'll never make a good impression on other people until you stop thinking what sort of impression you make.

Next to the Blessed Sacrament itself, your neighbor is the holiest object presented to your senses.

A man with an obsession is a man who has very little sales resistance.

But courage, child: we are all between the paws of the true Aslan.

I think earth, if chosen instead of Heaven, will turn out to have been, all along, only a region in Hell; and earth, if put second to Heaven, to have been from the beginning a part of Heaven itself.

We must sometimes get away from the Authorized Version, if for no other reason, simply because it is so beautiful and so solemn. Beauty exalts, but beauty also lulls. Early associations endear, but they also confuse. Through that beautiful solemnity, the transporting or horrifying realities of which the Book tells may come to us blunted and disarmed, and we may only sigh with tranquil veneration when we ought to be burning with shame, or struck dumb with terror, or carried out of ourselves by ravishing hopes and adorations.