Father! Can I box him? Please!

All your life an unattainable ecstasy has hovered just beyond the grasp of your consciousness. The day is coming when you will wake to find, beyond all hope, that you have attained it, or else, that it was within your reach and you have lost it forever.

And that's why, gentleman, if your little girl doesn't come up to scratch, it will be our painful duty to cut all your throats. Merely in a way of business, as you might say, and no offense, I hope.

Once a king or queen of Narnia, always a king or queen of Narnia.

Knock and it shall be opened.' But does knocking mean hammering and kicking the door like a maniac?

What can be better than to get out a book on Saturday afternoon and thrust all mundane considerations away till next week.

Morality, like numinous awe, is a jump; in it, man goes beyond anything that can be 'given' in the facts of experience.