A woman means by Unselfishness chiefly taking trouble for others; a man means not giving trouble to others...thus, while the woman thinks of doing good offices and the man of respecting other people's rights, each sex, without any obvious unreason, can and does regard the other as radically selfish.

In the truest sense, Christian pilgrims have the best of both worlds. We have joy whenever this world reminds us of the next, and we take solace whenever it does not.

We do know that no person can be saved except through Christ. We do not know that only those who know Him can be saved by Him.

War creates no absolutely new situation: it simply aggravates the permanent human situation so that we can no longer ignore it. Human life has always been lived on the edge of a precipice.

There was a boy called Eustace Clarence Scrubb, and he almost deserved it.

People shouldn't call for demons unless they really mean what they say.

The claim to equality, outside of the strictly political field, is made only by those who feel themselves to be in some way inferior.