If you do not take the distinction between good and bad very seriously, then it is easy to say that anything you find in this world is a part of God. But, of course, if you think some things really bad, and God really good, then you cannot talk like that. You must believe that God is separate from the world and that some of the things we see in it are contrary to His will.

The only palliative is to keep the clean sea breeze of the centuries blowing through our minds, and this can be done only by reading old books.

Laziness means more work in the long run.

Human intellect is incurably abstract.

There is a kind of happiness and wonder that makes you serious. It is too good to waste on jokes.

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

Those that hate goodness are sometimes nearer than those that know nothing at all about it and think they have it.