"You can't see anything properly while your..." - Quote by C S Lewis

“In those days Mr. Sherlock Holmes was still living in Baker Street and the Bastables were looking for treasure in the Lewisham Road.”

“But however happy you are feeling, you can't talk with your mouth full of snow.”

“The promise, made when I am in love, to be true to the beloved as long as I live, commits me to being true even if I cease to be in love.”

“The moment truth is asserted, it becomes false.”

“There is all the poetry in the world in a name. It is a poem which the mass of men hear and read. What is poetry in the common sense, but a hearing of such jingling names? I want nothing better than a good word. The name of a thing may easily be more than the thing itself to me.”

“We are acquainted with a mere pellicle of the globe on which we live. Most have not delved six feet beneath the surface, nor leaped as many above it. We know not where we are. Beside, we are sound asleep nearly half our time.”

“Emotions of any kind are produced by melody and rhythm; therefore by music a man becomes accustomed to feeling the right emotions; music has thus the power to form character, and the various kinds of music based on various modes may be distinguished by their effects on character.”

“If't be summer news, Smile to't before; if winterly, thou need'st But keep that count'nance still.”

“The joke in our family is that we can cry reading the phone book.”