Term, holidays, term, holidays, till we leave school, and then work, work, work till we die.

True humility is more like self-forgetfulness than false modesty.

Every poem can be considered in two ways--as what the poet has to say, and as a thing which he makes.

Would it not be better to be dead than to have this horrible fear that Aslan has come and is not like the Aslan we have believed in and longed for? It is as if the sun rose one day and were a black sun.

Most of us know what we should expect to find in a dragon's lair, but, as I said before, Eustace had read only the wrong books. They had a lot to say about exports and imports and governments and drains, but they were weak on dragons.

If you do not take the distinction between good and bad very seriously, then it is easy to say that anything you find in this world is a part of God. But, of course, if you think some things really bad, and God really good, then you cannot talk like that. You must believe that God is separate from the world and that some of the things we see in it are contrary to His will.

The discomfiture we feel may be our most accurate human sensation; reminding us we are not quite "at home" here.