The Screwtape Letters

by C.S. Lewis

All mortals tend to turn into the thing they are pretending to be.

Men are not angered by mere misfortune but by misfortune conceived as injury.

To be greatly and effectively wicked a man needs some virtue. What would Attila have been without his courage, or Shylock without self-denial as regards the flesh?

Indeed!

I sometimes wonder whether you think you have been sent into the world for your own amusement.

I have...