C.S. Lewis

Good and evil both increase at compound interest.

In great literature, I become a thousand different men but still remain myself.

The rule of the universe is that others can do for us what we cannot do for ourselves, and one can paddle every canoe except one's own.

My prayer is that when I die, all of hell rejoices that I am out of the fight.

The literary man re-reads, other men simply read.

It is my opinion that a story worth reading only in childhood is not worth reading even then.

...If you give such a creature two blows with a whip, there are, indeed, two pains: but there is no co-ordinating self which can recognise that 'I have had two pains'.

The pain I feel now is the happiness I had before. That's the deal.

Love is not affectionate feeling, but a steady wish for the loved person's ultimate good as far as it can be obtained.

And certainly both Horses were doing, if not all they could, all they thought they could; which is not quite the same thing.

We meet no ordinary people in our lives.

The malice thus becomes wholly real and the benevolence largely imaginary.