For a boy goes to a Public School precisely to be made a normal, sensible boy—a good mixer—to be taken out of himself; and eccentricity is severely penalized.

Experience: that most brutal of teachers. But you learn, my God do you learn.

Why should the separation (if nothing else) which so agonizes the lover who is left behind be painless to the lover who departs?

The Christian does not think God will love us because we are good, but that God will make us good because He loves us.

They say, 'The coward dies many times'; so does the beloved. Didn't the eagle find a fresh liver to tear in Prometheus every time it dined?

After all, you must have a capacity to receive, or even omnipotence can't give.

He had the look of one who has been with the Witch and eaten her food. You can always tell them if you've lived long in Narnia; something about their eyes.