Always prefer the plain direct word to the long, vague one. Don't implement promises, but keep them.

This lasted longer than I could describe even if I wrote pages and pages about it.

Once a king or queen of Narnia, always a king or queen of Narnia.

Look for yourself, and you will find in the long run only hatred, loneliness, despair, rage, ruin, and decay. But look for Christ, and you will find Him, and with Him everything else thrown in.

The long, dull, monotonous years of middle-aged prosperity or middle-aged adversity are excellent campaigning weather for the devil.

You can't get a cup of tea big enough or a book long enough to suit me.