"You're a mere chick. I remember you..." - Quote by C S Lewis

“I can imagine no man who will look with more horror on the End than a conscientious revolutionary who has, in a sense sincerely, been justifying cruelties and injustices inflicted on millions of his contemporaries by the benefits which he hopes to confer on future generations: generations who, as one terrible moment now reveals to him, were never going to exist. Then he will see the massacres, the faked trials, the deportations, to be all ineffaceably real, an essential part, his part, in the drama that has just ended: while the future Utopia had never been anything but a fantasy.”

“A man does not call a line crooked unless he has some idea of a straight line.”

“In those days a boy on the classical side officially did almost nothing but classics. I think this was wise; the greatest service we can to education today is to teach few subjects. No one has time to do more than a very few things well before he is twenty, and when we force a boy to be a mediocrity in a dozen subjects we destroy his standards, perhaps for life.”

“You can only be young once. But you can always be immature.”

“Wherever there is power there is age.”

“I am too old to fawn upon a nurse,Too far in years to be a pupil now.”

“These possessions of a simpleton being the three I choose and cherish: to care, to be fair, to be humble.”

“Look not at the face, young girl, look at the heart. The heart of a handsome young man is often deformed. There are hearts in which love does not keep. Young girl, the pine is not beautiful; it is not beautiful like the poplar, but it keeps its foliage in winter.”

“I hope you have lost your good looks, for while they last any fool can adore you, and the adoration of fools is bad for the soul.”