“But he could never bear mice.”

“You would not call a man humane for ceasing to set mousetraps if he did so because he believed there were no mice in the house.”

“Whatever he says, let his inner resolution be not to bear whatever comes to him, but to bear it 'for a reasonable period'--and let the reasonable period be shorter than the trial is likely to last. It need not be much shorter; in attacks on patience, chastity, and fortitude, the fun is to make the man yield just when (had he but known it) relief was almost in sight.”

“When Aslan Bears his teeth winter meets its death. When he shakes his mane, we shall have spring again.”

“So that the one road for which we now need God's leadership most of all is a road God, in His own nature, has never walked. But suppose God became a man... He could surrender His will, suffer and die, because He was a man...”

“We are ready to turn and twist the facts until they bear no resemblance to the original thing.”

“See the bear in his own den before you judge of his conditions.”