It is natural to believe in God when you're alone-- quite alone, in the night, thinking about death.

Happiness is a hard master, particularly other people's happiness.

We don't want to change. Every change is a menace to stability.

The sum of evil, Pascal remarked, would be much diminished if men could only learn to sit quietly in their rooms.

An irrelevance, and your life's altered.

God isn't compatible with machinery and scientific medicine and universal happiness. You must make your choice. Our civilization has chosen machinery and medicine and happiness.

Lying in bed, he would think of Heaven and London.