Many things — such as loving, going to sleep, or behaving unaffectedly — are done worst when we try hardest to do them.

C. S. Lewis (1898-1963) English writer, literary scholar, lay theologian [Clive Staples Lewis]

Studies in Medieval and Renaissance Literature, “Edmund Spenser” (1966)

Full text. This chapter of the book was originally printed in Major British Writers, ed. G. B. Harrison (1959).