"If we really think that home is..." - Quote by C S Lewis

“Be good, sweet maid, and don't forget that this involves being as clever as you can.”

“I do not believe one can settle how much we ought to give. I am afraid the only safe rule is to give more than we can spare. In other words, if our expenditure on comforts, luxuries, amusements, etc, is up to the standard common among those with the same income as our own, we are probably giving away too little. If our charities do not at all pinch or hamper us, I should say they are too small. There ought to be things we should like to do and cannot do because our charitable expenditure excludes them.”

“A tyrannous and gluttonous demand for affection can be a horrible thing. But in ordinary life no one calls a child selfish because it turns for comfort to its mother; nor an adult who turns to his fellow "for company." Those, whether children or adults, who do so least are not usually the most selfless.”

“Anecdote: A house that is rooted to one spot but can travel as quickly as you change your mind and is complete in itself is surely the most desirable of houses. Our modern house with its cumbersome walls and its foundations planted deep in the ground is nothing better than a prison and more and more prison like does it become the longer we live there, and wear fetters of a association and sentiment.”

“The ornament of a house is the friends who frequent it.”

“I’d rather be at home and eat ice cream than go out and get wasted.”

“Daily life is more instructive than the most effective book.”

“I know that the most joy in my life has come to me from my violin.”

“Happiness is not something that you get in life, hapiness is something that you bring in life”