It suddenly seemed to me that I was lonely, that everyone was forsaking me and going away from me.

There is nothing in the world more difficult than candor, and nothing easier than flattery. If there is a hundredth of a fraction of a false note to candor, it immediately produces dissonance, and as a result, exposure. But in flattery, even if everything is false down to the last note, it is still pleasant, and people will listen not without pleasure; with coarse pleasure, perhaps, but pleasure nevertheless.

Right or wrong, it's very pleasant to break something from time to time.

It is man's unique privilege, among all other organisms. By pursuing falsehood you will arrive at the truth!

The essence of religious feeling does not come under any sort of reasoning or atheism, and has nothing to do with any crimes or misdemeanors. There is something else here, and there will always be something else - something that the atheists will for ever slur over; they will always be talking of something else.

If he has a conscience he will suffer for his mistake. That will be his punishment-as well as the prison.

The most pressing question on the problem of faith is whether a man as a civilized being can believe in the divinity of the Son of God, Jesus Christ, for therein rests the whole of our faith.