Your Majesty would have a perfect right to strike off his head," said Peridan. "Such an assault as he made puts him on a level with assassins." "It is very true," said Edmund. "But even a traitor may mend. I have known one that did." And he looked very thoughtful.

I believe that if a million chances were likely to do good, they would be given.

In Gethsemane the holiest of all petitioners prayed three times that a certain cup might pass from Him. It did not.

The human heart is not unchanging (nay, changes almost out of recognition in the twinkling of an eye).

We know we are sinners, it does not follow that we are saved.

No thanks," said Digory, "I don't know that I care much about living on and on after everyone I know is dead. I'd rather live an ordinary time and die and go to Heaven.

Daughter, I have now lived a hundred and nine winters in this world and have never yet met any such thing as Luck. There is something about all this that I do not understand: but if ever we need to know it, you may be sure that we shall.