In our world," said Eustace, "a star is a huge ball of flaming gas." Even in your world, my son, that is not what a star is, but only what it is made of.

Autumn is really the best of the seasons

Devils are depicted with bats' wings and good angels with birds' wings, not because anyone holds that moral deterioration would be likely to turn feathers into membrane, but because most men like birds better than bats.

I cannot speak for the way God deals with others; I only know how he deals with me personally.

Very often what God first helps us towards is not the virtue itself but just this power of always trying again.

'Useful,' and 'necessity' was always 'the tyrant's plea'.

The very lack of evidence is thus treated as evidence; the absence of smoke proves that the fire is very carefully hidden...A belief in invisible cats cannot be logically disproved although it does tell us a good deal about those who hold it.