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

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

The most distressing thing that can happen to a prophet is to be proved wrong. The next most distressing thing is to be proved right.

But every one belongs to every one else

You got rid of them. Yes, that’s just like you. Getting rid of everything unpleasant instead of learning to put up with it. Whether ‘tis better in the mind to suffer the slings and arrows of outrageous fortune, or to take arms against a sea of troubles and by opposing end them… But you don’t do either. Neither suffer nor oppose. You just abolish the slings and arrows. It’s too easy.

A really efficient totalitarian state would be one in which the all-powerful executive of political bosses and their army of managers control a population of slaves who do not have to be coerced, because they love their servitude.

On no account brood over your wrongdoing. Rolling in the muck is not the best way of getting clean.