C. S. Lewis

If we cut up beasts simply because they cannot prevent us and because we are backing our own side in the struggle for existence, it is only logical to cut up imbeciles, criminals, enemies, or capitalists for the same reasons. ”

Courage is not simply one of the virtues, but the form of every virtue at the testing point. ”

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

A man who is eating or lying with his wife or preparing to go to sleep in humility, thankfulness and temperance, is, by Christian standards, in an infinitely higher state than one who is listening to Bach or reading Plato in a state of pride. ”

If you look for truth, you may find comfort in the end; if you look for comfort you will not get either comfort or truth only soft soap and wishful thinking to begin, and in the end, despair. ”

Affection is responsible for nine-tenths of whatever solid and durable happiness there is in our lives. ”

Joy is the serious business of Heaven. ”

Real joy seems to me almost as unlike security or prosperity as it is unlike agony. ”

I sometimes wonder whether all pleasures are not substitutes for joy. ”

God cannot give us a happiness and peace apart from Himself, because it is not there. There is no such thing. ”