I think He made one law of that kind in order that there might be obedience. In all these other matters what you call obeying Him is but doing what seems good in your own eyes also. Is love content with that?

I pray because I can't help myself.

Surely arrested development consists not in refusing to lose old things but in failing to add new things.

Here are beauties which pierce like swords or burn like cold iron. Here is a book [The Lord of the Rings] which will break your heart."

Nothing is more characteristically juvenile than contempt for juvenility. . . youth's characteristic chronological snobbery.

The task of the modern educator is not to cut down jungles, but to irrigate deserts.

Child, to say the very thing you really mean, the whole of it, nothing more or less or other than what you really mean; that's the whole art and joy of words.