Most people spend most of their lives doing neither what they want to be doing nor what they ought to be doing.

Love is not affectionate feeling, but a steady wish for the loved person's ultimate good as far as it can be obtained.

It is only our bad temper that we put down to being tired or worried or hungry; we put our good temper down to ourselves.

If nothing is self-evident, nothing can be proved. Similarly if nothing is obligatory for its own sake, nothing is obligatory at all.

This act [creation], as it is for God, must always remain totally inconceivable to man. For we--even our poets and musicians and inventors--never, in the ultimate sense make. We only build. We always have materials to build from. All we can know about the act of creation must be derived from what we can gather about the relation of the creatures to their Creator

The game is to have them all running about with fire extinguishers when there is a flood, and all crowding to that side of the boat which is already nearly gunwale under.

Don't let your happiness depend on something you may lose.