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

Though no one would want to be sold as a slave, it is perhaps even more galling to be a sort of utility slave whom no one will buy.

That part of Rostrevor which overlooks Carlingford Lough is my idea of Narnia.

One is given strength to bear what happens to one, but not the 100 and 1 different things that might happen.

But courage, child: we are all between the paws of the true Aslan.

We may note in passing that He (Jesus) was never regarded as a mere moral teacher. He did not produce that effect on any of the people who actually met Him. He produced mainly three effects - Hatred - Terror - Adoration. There was no trace of people expressing mild admiration.

All day I have been tossed and whirled in a preposterous happiness; was it an elf in the blood? Or a bird in the brain? Or even part of the cloudily crested, fifty-league-long, loud, uplifted wave of a journeying angels transit over and through my heart?