It is not your business to succeed, but to do right. When you have done so the rest lies with god.

The false religion of lust is baser than the false religion of mother-love or patriotism or art: but lust is less likely to be made into a religion.

If religion does not make us better people, it will make us very much worse. And of all the bad men who have lived, the religious "bad man" is the worst of all.

To get even near humility, even for a moment, is like a drink of cold water to a man in a desert.

There is nothing like suspense and anxiety for barricading a human's mind against the Enemy. He wants men to be concerned with what they do; our business is to keep them thinking about what will happen to them.

The longer we stay in Hell, the more we become attached to it.

Without sin, the universe is a Solemn Game: and there is no good game without rules.