C.S. Lewis, Surprised By Joy: The Shape Of My Early Life Quotes
A young man who wishes to remain a sound atheist cannot be too careful of his reading.
The universe rings true whenever you fairly test it.
You can do more with a castle in a story than with the best cardboard castle that ever stood on a nursery table.
I could never have gone far in any science because on the path of every science the lion Mathematics lies in wait for you.
Straight tribulation is easier to bear than tribulation which advertises itself as pleasure.
That is why I often find myself at such cross-purposes with the modern world: I have been a converted Pagan living among apostate Puritans.
I fancy that most of those who think at all have done a great deal of their thinking in the first fourteen years.
It is not settled happiness but momentary joy that glorifies the past.
