"[Something] does not rise to the dignity..." - Quote by C S Lewis

“Naturally, since I myself am a writer, I do not wish the ordinary reader to read no modern books. But if he must read only the new or only the old, I would advise him to read the old.”

“If they won't write the kind of books we like to read we shall have to write them ourselves.”

“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.”

“To free a man from error is to give, not to take away. Knowledge that a thing is false is a truth. Error always does harm; sooner or later it will bring mischief to the man who harbors it.”

“The newspaper reader says: this party will ruin itself if it makes errors like this. My higher politics says: a party which makes errors like this is already finished -- it is no longer secure in its instincts.”

“Errors flies from mouth to mouth, from pen to pen, and to destroy it takes ages.”

“It is impossible to find twelve fair men in all the world.”

“If the present tries to sit in judgment of the past, it will lose the future.”

“Fools call wise men fools. A wise man never calls any man a fool.”