Christianity asserts that every individual human being is going to live for ever, and this must be either true or false. Now there are a good many things which would not be worth bothering about if I were going to live only seventy years, but which I had better bother about very seriously if I am going to live for ever.

A moderated religion is as good for us as no religion at all—and more amusing.

We must learn by experience to avoid either trains of thought or social situations which for us (not necessarily for everyone) lead to temptations. Like motoring-don't wait till the last moment before you put on the brakes but put them on, gently and quietly, while the danger is still a good way off.

Everything is as good or bad as our opinion makes it.

Do you not know how bashful friendship is? Friends - comrades - do not look at each other. Friendship would be ashamed.

The beauty of life, is that you don't have to be modernly beautiful to live it.

Whenever you are fed up with life, start writing: ink is the great cure for all human ills, as I have found out long ago.