“Always try to use the language so as to make quite clear what you mean and make sure your sentence couldn’t mean anything else.”

“Once a King in Narnia, always a King in Narnia. But don’t go trying to use the same route twice. Indeed, don’t try to get there at all. It’ll happen when you’re not looking for it.”

“Some people write heavily, some write lightly. I prefer the light approach because I believe there is a great deal of false reverence about. There is too much solemnity and intensity in dealing with sacred matters; too much speaking in holy tones.”

“How incessant and great are the ills with which a prolonged old age is replete.”

“A young man who wishes to remain a sound atheist cannot be too careful of his reading.”

“Child, to say the very thing you really mean, the whole of it, nothing more or less or other than what you really mean; that’s the whole art and joy of words.”

“To walk out of His will is to walk into nowhere.”

“Free will, though it makes evil possible, is also the only thing that makes possible any love or goodness or joy worth having.”

“It’s so much easier to pray for a bore than to go and see one.”

“Things never happen the same way twice.”

“It is when we notice the dirt that God is most present in us; it is the very sign of His presence.”

“One road leads home and a thousand roads lead into the wilderness.”

“To be able under all circumstances to practice five things constitutes perfect virtue; these five things are gravity, generosity of soul, sincerity, earnestness, and kindness.”

“Boldness, without the rules of propriety, becomes insubordination.”

“A common man marvels at uncommon things. A wise man marvels at the commonplace.”

“Before you embark on a journey of revenge, dig two graves.”

“To see and listen to the wicked is already the beginning of wickedness.”

“Ability will never catch up with the demand for it.”

“He who conquers himself is the mightiest warrior.”

“Worry not that no one knows of you; seek to be worth knowing.”

“A man who has committed a mistake and doesn’t correct it is committing another mistake.”

“Act with kindness, but do not expect gratitude.”

“Review the old and deducing the new makes a teacher.”

“Sincerity and truth are the basis of every virtue.”