"Come, live with me and you'll know..." - Quote by C S Lewis

“Though under earth, and throneless now I be Yet while I lived all earth was under me.”

“I have discovered, passionate grief does not link us with the dead but cuts us off from them. This becomes clearer and clearer. It is just at those moments when I feel least sorrow - getting into my morning bath is usually one of them - that H. rushes upon my mind in her full reality, her otherness. Not, as in my worst moments, all foreshortened and patheticized and solemnized by my miseries, but as she is in her own right. This is good and tonic.”

“The return from the walk, and the arrival of tea, should be exactly coincident, and not later than a quarter past four.”

“Women are like elephants to me. I like to look at them, but I wouldn't want to own one.”

“Rings and other jewels are not gifts, but apologies for gifts. The only gift is a portion of thyself.”

“The 'public' scares me, but people I trust.”

“Officials are highly educated but one-sided; in his own department an official can grasp whole trains of thought from a single word, but let him have something from another department explained to him ... he won't understand a word of it.”

“The admiral needs only one science, that of navigation. The general needs all the sciences.”

“The roots of knowledge are bitter, but its fruit are sweet.”