"No justification of virtue will enable a..." - Quote by C S Lewis

“No one can say 'He jests at scars who never felt a wound' for I have never for one moment been in a state of mind to which even the imagination of serious pain was less than intolerable. If any man is safe from the danger of under-estimating this adversary, I am that man.”

“The very idea of freedom presupposes some objective moral law which overarches rulers and ruled alike...Unless we return to the crude and nursery-like belief in objective values, we perish.”

“Few men looked on her without becoming, in a certain fashion, her lovers. But it was the kind of love that made them not less true, but truer, to their own wives.”

“The prudent man does himself good; the virtuous one does it to other men.”

“Idleness is the beginning of all vice, the crown of all virtues.”

“Righteousness exalteth a nation.”

“Anger is never without a reason, but seldom with a good one.”

“Weep not, sweet queen, for trickling tears are vain.”

“A lonely impulse of delight”