There was nothing medieval people liked better, or did better, than sorting out and tidying up. Of all our modern inventions I suspect that they would most have admired the card index.

All schools both here and in America should teach far fewer subjects far better.

The central miracle asserted by Christians is the incarnation. They say that God became man.

Digory never spoke on the way back, and the others were shy of speaking to him. He was very sad and he wasn't even sure all the time that he had done the right thing; but whenever he remembered the shining tears in Aslan's eyes he became sure.

A sum can be put right: but only by going back till you find the error and working it afresh from that point, never by simply going on.

When humans should have become as perfect in voluntary obedience as the inanimate creation is in its lifeless obedience, then they will put on its glory, or rather that greater glory of which Nature is only the first sketch.

Experience: that most brutal of teachers. But you learn, my God do you learn.