They're old; they're about God hundreds of years ago. Not about God now" "But God doesn't change" "Men do though

If Men and Women took their Pleasures as noisily as the Cats, what Londoner could ever hope to sleep of nights?

Everybody strains after happiness, and the result is that nobody's happy.

Too much consistency is as bad for the mind as for the body.

For some strange reason murder has always seemed more respectable than fornication. Few people are shocked when they hear God described as the God of Battles; but what an outcry there would be if anyone spoke of him as the God of Brothels.

Slowly, very slowly, like two unhurried compass needles, the feet turned towards the right; north, north-east, east, south-east, south, south-south-west; then paused, and after a few seconds, turned as unhurriedly back towards the left. South-south-west, south, south-east, east.

The critics don't interest me because they're concerned with what's past and done, while I'm concerned with what comes next.