And I say also this. I do not think the forest would be so bright, nor the water so warm, nor love so sweet, if there were no danger in the lakes.

[The decay of Logic results from an] untroubled assumption that the particular is real and the universal is not.

The proper rewards are not simply tacked on to the activity for which they are given, but are the activity itself in consummation.

Peter did not feel very brave; indeed, he felt he was going to be sick. But that made no difference to what he had to do.

When things go wrong, you'll find they usually go on getting worse for some time; but when things once start going right they often go on getting better and better.

We are all fallen creatures and all very hard to live with.

The whole journey was odd and dream-like -- the roaring stream, the wet grey grass, the glimmering cliffs which they were approaching, and always the glorious, silently pacing beast ahead.