Never use abstract nouns when concrete ones will do. If you mean “More people died” don’t say “Mortality rose.

And that's why, when they want to get rid of anyone, they usually bring him down here (like they were doing with me) and say they'll leave him to the ghosts. But I always wondered if they didn't really drown 'em or cut their throats. I never quite believed in the ghosts. But those two cowards you've just shot believed all right. They were more scared of taking me to my death than I was of going.

There is no use in talking as if forgiveness were easy. For we find that the work of forgiveness has to be done over and over again.

When once a man is launched on such an adventure as this, he must bid farewell to hopes and fears, otherwise death or deliverance will both come too late to save his honor and his reason. Ho, my beauties!

If the universe is so bad...how on earth did human beings ever come to attribute it to the activity of a wise and good Creator?

Last year, when he had been staying with the Pevensies, he had managed to hear them all talking of Narnia and he loved teasing them about it. He thought of course that they were making it all up; and as he was far too stupid to make anything up himself, he did not approve of that.

Many people think their prayers are never answered because it is the answered ones they forget.