"The only palliative is to keep the..." - Quote by C S Lewis

“Naturally, since I myself am a writer, I do not wish the ordinary reader to read no modern books. But if he must read only the new or only the old, I would advise him to read the old.”

“This must be a simply enormous wardrobe!”

“Remember that all worlds draw to an end and that noble death is a treasure which no one is too poor to buy.”

“You cannot open a book without learning something.”

“People die, but books never die. No man and no force can abolish memory.”

“Mrs Weaver nosed among the books, too dim-witted to grasp that they were in alphabetical order.”

“The wise man will want to be ever with him who is better than himself.”

“Free from gross passion or of mirth of anger constant spirit, not swerving with the blood, garnish'd and deck'd in modest compliment, not working with the eye without the ear, and but in purged judgement trusting neither? Such and so finely bolted didst thou seem.”

“Before we acquire great power we must acquire wisdom to use it well.”