Meanwhile, little people like you and me, if our prayers are sometimes granted, beyond all hope and probability, had better not draw hasty conclusions to our own advantage. If we were stronger, we might be less tenderly treated. If we were braver, we might be sent, with far less help, to defend far more desperate posts in the great battle.

Morality or duty never yet made a man happy in himself or dear to others.

He produced mainly three results: Hatred, Terror, Adoration.

Thirst was made for water; inquiry for truth. What you now call the free play of inquiry has neither more nor less to do with the ends for which intelligence was given you than masturbation has to do with marriage.

People blush at praise--not only praise of their bodies, but praise of anything that is theirs.

The higher the stakes, the greater the temptation to lose your temper.

Readers are advised to remember that the devil is a liar.