Suppose... suppose we have only dreamed and made up these things like sun, sky, stars, and moon, and Aslan himself. In that case, it seems to me that the made-up things are a good deal better than the real ones. And if this black pits of a kingdom is the best you can make, then it's a poor world. And we four can make a dream world to lick your real one hollow.

Every age has its own outlook. It is specially good at seeing certain truths and specially liable to make certain mistakes. We all, therefore, need the books that will correct the characteristic mistake of our own period. And that means the old books.

To get even near humility, even for a moment, is like a drink of cold water to a man in a desert.

All men alike stand condemned, not by alien codes of ethics, but by their own, and all men therefore are conscious of guilt.

A great many of those who 'debunk' traditional...values have in the background values of their own which they believe to be immune from the debunking process

This was the very reason why you were brought to Narnia, that by knowing me here for a little, you may know me better there.

Very few modern people think Friendship a love of comparable value or even a love at all.