To become reconciled to a friend with whom you have broken, is a form of weakness; and you pay the penalty of it when he takes the first opportunity of doing precisely the very thing which brought about the breach.

The first rule for a good style is to have something to say; in fact, this in itself is almost enough.

We forfeit three-quarters of ourselves in order to be like other people.

Mankind cannot get on without a certain amount of absurdity.

Religion is the masterpiece of the art of animal training, for it trains people as to how they shall think.

...this our world, which is so real, with all its suns and milky ways is-nothing.

This world could not have been the work of an all-loving being, but that of a devil, who had brought creatures into existence in order to delight in the sight of their sufferings.