The whole difficulty of understanding Hell is that the thing to be understood is so nearly nothing.

I fancy that most people who think at all have done a great deal of their thinking in the first fourteen years.

When you are not feeling particularly friendly but know you ought to be, the best thing you can do, very often, is to put on a friendly manner and behave as if you were a nicer person than you actually are. And in a few minutes, as we have all noticed, you will be really feeling friendlier than you were.

What we call Man's power over Nature turns out to be a power exercised by some men over other men with Nature as its instrument.

Whenever you find a man who says he does not believe in a real Right and Wrong, you will find the same man going back on this a moment later. He may break his promise to you, but if you try breaking one to him he will be complaining 'It's not fair' before you can say Jack Robinson.

Once people stop believing in God, the problem is not that they will believe in nothing; rather, the problem is that they will believe anything.

When first things are put first, second things are not suppressed but increased.