"Oh, Adam’s sons, how cleverly you defend..." - Quote by C S Lewis

“The grave and the image are equally links with the irrecoverable and symbols for the unimaginable.”

“Very often the only way to get a quality in reality is to start behaving as if you had it already.”

“The real trouble is that 'kindness' is a quality fatally easy to attribute to ourselves on quite inadequate grounds. Everyone feels benevolent if nothing happens to be annoying him at the moment. Thus a man easily comes to console himself for all his other vices by a conviction that 'his heart's in the right place' and 'he wouldn't hurt a fly,' though in fact he has never made the slightest sacrifice for a fellow creature. We think we are kind when we are only happy: it is not so easy, on the same grounds, to imagine oneself temperate, chaste, or humble.”

“Nothing so fortifies a friendship as a belief on the part of one friend that he is superior to the other.”

“Do all men kill the things they do not love?”

“The melancholy have the best sense of the comic, the opulent often the best sense of the rustic, the dissolute often the best sense of the moral, and the doubter often the best sense of the religious.”

“I believe it's a crime for anyone who is being brutalized to continue to accept that brutality without doing something to defend himself.”

“We are rebels for a cause, poets with a dream , and we won't let this world die without a fight.”

“We must bear in mind, then, that there is nothing more difficult and dangerous, or more doubtful of success, than an attempt to introduce a new order of things in any state. For the innovator has for enemies all those who derived advantages from the old order of things, whilst those who expect to be benefited by the new institutions will be but lukewarm defenders.”