Oh, Adam’s sons, how cleverly you defend yourselves against all that might do you good!

What you see and what you hear depends a great deal on where you are standing. It also depends on what sort of person you are.

No great wisdom can be reached without sacrifice.

You know me better than you think, you know, and you shall know me better yet.

this is a book about something

It was a rich place: as rich as plumcake.

For what you see and hear depends a good deal on where you are standing: it also depends on what sort of person you are.

That's all YOU know, ' said Digory. 'It's because you're a girl. Girls never want to know anything but gossip and rot about people getting engaged.

That was what it felt like - as if one had always been in that place and never been bored although nothing had ever happened.

Trust the perception not the presentation.

Scholastic learning and polemical divinity retarded the growth of all true knowledge.

I believe that cuisine is the most important link between nature and culture.

It's hard to understand how you arrive at a design. It's far too complicated to get any overall picture of.

Personal liberty is not personal license.

If What you re doing now was enough to get what you want, you'd already have it.

Turkey is undoubtedly one of the best gifts that the New World has made to the Old.

The foundation upon which Rotary is built is friendship; on no less firm foundation could it have stood.

Anyone who can worship a trinity and insist that his religion is a monotheism can believe anything.

I believe you should seek to understand and then be understood.