Beloved," said the Glorious One, "unless thy desire had been for me thou wouldst not have sought so long and so truly. For all find what they truly seek.

Am I to understand,' said Reepicheep to Lucy after a long stare at Eustace, 'That this singularly discourteous person is under your Majesty's protection? Because, if not--

As long as this deliberate refusal to understand things from above, even where such understanding is possible, continues, it is idle to talk of any final victory over materialism.

I have read the Aeneid through more often than I have read any long poem.

We have not long to live in any event. Let us spend what is left in seeking the unpeopled world behind the sunrise.

We long for more and God's promise is that there is more awaiting us. More to delight us than we will ever exhaust.

Who are you?' One who has waited long for you to speak.

Always prefer the plain direct word to the long, vague one.

The promise, made when I am in love, to be true to the beloved as long as I live, commits me to being true even if I cease to be in love.