A proud man is always looking down on things and people; and, of course, as long as you are looking down, you cannot see something that is above you.

I gave up Christianity at about 14. Came back to it when getting on for 30. Not an emotional conversion; almost purely philosophical. I didn't want to. I'm not in the least a religious type. I want to be let alone, to feel I'm my own master; but since the facts seemed to be just the opposite, I had to give in.

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

This was the very reason why you were brought to Narnia, that by knowing me here for a little, you may know me better there.

We can never know that a piece of writing is bad unless we have begun by trying to read it as if it was very good and ended by discovering that we were paying the author an undeserved compliment.

You weren't a decent man and you didn't do your best. We none of us were and none of us did.

Better to be miserable with her than happy without her. Let our hearts break provided they break together. If the voice within us does not say this it is not the voice of Eros.