Nature never taught me that there exists a God of glory and of infinite majesty. I had to learn that in other ways. But nature gave the word glory a meaning for me. I still do not know where else I could have found one.

Only a bad person needs to repent: only a good person can repent perfectly.

Language exists to communicate whatever it can communicate. Some things it communicates so badly that we never attempt to communicate them by words if any other medium is available.

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.

Not to be, but to seem, virtuous - it is a formula whose utility we all discovered in the nursery.

I wonder do the gods know what it feels like to be a man.

God doesn't want something from us. He simply wants us.