By the very act of arguing, you awake the patient's reason; and once it is awake, who can foresee the result?
See the bear in his own den before you judge of his conditions.
The harder you tried not to think, the more you thought.
There seems to be hardly any one among my acquaintance from whom I have not learned.
Laziness means more work in the long run.
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.