The best swordsman in the world may be disarmed by a trick that's new to him.

Forgiving and being forgiven are two names for the same thing. The important thing is that a discord has been resolved.

They were really getting quite fond of their strange pet and hoped that Aslan would allow them to keep it. The cleverer ones were quite sure by now that at least some of the noises which came out of his mouth had a meaning. They christened him Brandy because he made that noise so often.

The present is the only time in which any duty may be done or grace received.

So many things--nay every real thing--is good if only it will be humble and ordinate.

For most of us the prayer in Gethsemane is the only model. Removing mountains can wait.

Let there be wicked kings and beheadings, battles and dungeons, giants and dragons, and let the villans be soundly killed at the end of the book. I think it is possible that by confining your child to the blameless stories of life in which nothing at all alarming ever happens, you would fail to banish the terrors, and would succeed in banishing all that can ennoble them or make them endurable.