It is quite useless knocking at the door of heaven for earthly comfort. It's not the sort of comfort they supply there.

Good people know about both good and evil: bad people do not know about either.

The safest road to hell is the gradual one - the gentle slope, soft underfoot, without sudden turnings, without milestones, without signposts.

Even in literature and art, no man who bothers about originality will ever be original: whereas if you simply try to tell the truth (without caring twopence how often it has been told before) you will, nine times out of ten, become original without ever having noticed it.

You would not call a man humane for ceasing to set mousetraps if he did so because he believed there were no mice in the house.

If Christianity is only one more bit of good advice, then Christianity is of no importance.

Things always work according to their nature.