Which of the religions of the world gives to its followers the greatest happiness? While it lasts, the religion of worshiping oneself is best.

The term is over: the holidays have begun. The dream is ended: this is the morning.

A tyrannous and gluttonous demand for affection can be a horrible thing. But in ordinary life no one calls a child selfish because it turns for comfort to its mother; nor an adult who turns to his fellow "for company." Those, whether children or adults, who do so least are not usually the most selfless.

[God] will not be used as a convenience. Men or nations who think they can revive the Faith in order to make a good society might just as well think they can use the stairs of heaven as a shortcut to the nearest chemist's shop.

Mental pain is less dramatic than physical pain, but it is more common and also more hard to bear. The frequent attempt to conceal mental pain increases the burden: it is easier to say “My tooth is aching” than to say “My heart is broken.

Prosperity knits a man to the world.

Though under earth, and throneless now I be Yet while I lived all earth was under me.