"The trouble about argument is that it moves the whole struggle onto the Enemy's own ground."

"The Enemy allows this disappointment to occur on the threshold of every human endeavour. It occurs when the boy who h…"

"Murder is no better than cards if cards can do the trick. Indeed the safest road to Hell is the gradual one—the gentl…"

"I would make it a rule to eradicate from my patient any strong personal taste which is not actually a sin, even if it…"

"As one of the humans has said, active habits are strengthened by repetition but passive ones are weakened. The more o…"

"The Enemy wants him, in the end, to be so free from any bias in his own favour that he can rejoice in his own talents…"

"The horror of the Same Old Thing is one of the most valuable passions we have produced in the human heart—an endless …"

"“How can you—how dare you have such wicked, revengeful thoughts?” “Revenge may be wicked, but it’s natural,” answered…"

"The world is a looking-glass, and gives back to every man the reflection of his own face. Frown at it, and it will in…"

"And this I set down as a positive truth. A woman with fair opportunities, and without a positive hump, may marry whom…"