Matt Darby

“While friendship has been by far the chief source of my happiness, acquaintance or general society has always meant little to me, and I cannot quite understand why a man should wish to know more people than he can make real friends of.”
― C.S. Lewis, Surprised by Joy: The Shape of My Early Life

“I could never have gone far in any science because on the path of every science the lion Mathematics lies in wait for you.”
― C. S. Lewis, Surprised by Joy: The Shape of My Early Life

“the greatest service we can do to education today is to teach fewer subjects. No one has time to do more than a very few things well before he is twenty, and when we force a boy to be a mediocrity in a dozen subjects, we destroy his standards, perhaps for life.”
― C.S. Lewis, Surprised by Joy: The Shape of My Early Life

“A young man who wishes to remain a sound atheist cannot be too careful of his reading.”
― C.S. Lewis, Surprised by Joy: The Shape of My Early Life