Sublime

Perhaps the most accurate words spoken on this subject came from the mouth of a beaver. In C. S. Lewis’s The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe, Lucy Pevensie is learning about Aslan, the great lion who rules Narnia. In hearing him described by Mr. Beaver as a King of the Beasts and the Great Lion, and that anyone approaching him will have her knees

Goodness was a matter of habit.

“He whom man kills God restores to life; he whom his brothers drive away finds the Father. Pray, believe, enter into life! The Father is here.”

Those of the English who were then children owe to Hans Andersen more than to any of their own writers, that essential educational emotion which feels that domesticity is not dull but rather fantastic; that sense of the fairyland of furniture, and the travel and adventure of the farmyard.

The morality of a great writer is not the morality he teaches, but the morality he takes for granted.

No house of any pretension to be called a palace is in the least worthy of the name, except it has a wood near it—very near it—and the nearer the better.

FRIENDSHIP In each of my friends there is something that only some other friend can fully bring out. By myself I am not large enough to call the whole man into activity; I want other lights than my own to show all his facets. Now that Charles is dead, I shall never again see Ronald’s reaction to a specifically Caroline joke. Far from having more of

He realizes, what Peter Pan could not be made to realize, that a plain human house of one’s own, standing in one’s own backyard, is really quite as romantic as a rather cloudy house at the top of a tree or a highly conspiratorial house underneath the roots of it.