"The sane would do no good if..." - Quote by C S Lewis

“What we call Man's power over Nature turns out to be a power exercised by some men over other men with Nature as its instrument.”

“There is no use saying you chose to lie down when it has become impossible to stand up.”

“Courtship is the time for sowing those seeds which will grow up ten years into domestic hatred.”

“To disagree with three-fourths of the British public is one of the first requisites of sanity.”

“No sane man is unafraid in battle, but discipline produces in him a form of vicarious courage.”

“No sane man will dance.”

“He was met even now As mad as the vex'd sea; singing aloud; Crown'd with rank fumiter and furrow-weeds, With bur-docks, hemlock, nettles, cuckoo-flowers, Darnel, and all the idle weeds that grow In our sustaining corn.”

“I don't know what to say about this book. The experience on which it is founded is so extraordinary, that an honest record of it should be preserved . . . But it would have driven me mad; and I am not sure that the author came out of it without a slight derangement.”

“Grant me an old man's frenzy, Myself must I remake Till I am Timon and Lear Or that William Blake Who beat upon the wall Till Truth obeyed his call.”