I fancy that most people who think at all have done a great deal of their thinking in the first fourteen years. - C. S. Lewis

Courtship is the time for sowing those seeds which will grow up ten years into domestic hatred.

The Enemy wants to bring the man to a state of mind in which he could design the best cathedral in the world, and know it to be the best, and rejoice in the fact, without being any more (or less) or otherwise glad at having done it than he would be if it had been done by another. 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 as frankly and gratefully as in his neighbour's talents — or in a sunrise, an elephant, or a waterfall.

‘But you must see that if two things are alike, then it is a further question whether the first is copied from the second, or the second from the first, or both from a third.’
‘What would the third be?’
‘Some have thought that all these loves were copies of our love for the Landlord.’