True humility is more like self-forgetfulness than false modesty.

We have failed to practise ourselves the kind of behaviour we expect from other people.

Talk to me about the truth of religion and I'll listen gladly. Talk to me about the duty of religion and I'll listen submissively. But don't come talking to me about the consolations of religion or I shall suspect that you don't understand.

Good and evil both increase at compound interest.

Friendship is unnecessary, like philosophy, like art... It has no survival value; rather it is one of those things that give value to survival.

No one ever told me that grief felt so like fear. I am not afraid, but the sensation is like being afraid. The same fluttering in the stomach, the same restlessness, the yawning. I keep on swallowing.

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.