And as you turned away from the window you suddenly caught sight of that sea or that valley, all over again, in the looking-glass. The difference between the old Narnia and the new Narnia was like that. C. S. Lewis, Chapter 15, The Last Battle . The things I believed most then, the things I believe most now, are the things called fairy tales. They seem to me to be the entirely reasonable things.
Fairyland is nothing but the sunny country of common sense.
G. K. Chesterton, Chapter IV, Orthodoxy . All you've been saying is quite right, I shouldn't wonder. I'm a chap who always liked to know the worse and then put the best face I can on it. So I won't deny any of what you said. But there's one thing more to be said, even so.