One always feel better when one has made up one's mind.

Men became scientific because they expected Law in Nature, and they expected Law in Nature because they believed in a Law Giver.

Humans are amphibians - half spirit and half animal. As spirits they belong to the eternal world, but as animals they inhabit time.

All get what they want; they do not always like it.

Joy is the serious business of heaven. Our merriment must be between people who take each other seriously.

I have no duty to be anyone's Friend and no man in the world has a duty to be mine. No claims, no shadow of necessity. Friendship is unnecessary, like philosophy, like art, like the universe itself (for God did not need to create). It has no survival value; rather it is one of those things which give value to survival.

Only He who really lived a human life (and I presume that only one did) can fully taste the horror of death.