The most intolerable pain is produced by prolonging the keenest pleasure.

The philosopher is Nature's pilot. And there you have our difference: to be in hell is to drift: to be in heaven is to steer.

There is no sincerer love than the love of food.

Nobody could stand an eternity of Heaven.

God's trustiest lieutenants often lack official credentials. They may be professed atheists who are also men of honour and high public spirit.

We live in an atmosphere of shame. We are ashamed of everything that is real about us; ashamed of ourselves, of our relatives, of our incomes, of our accents, of our opinions, of our experience, just as we are ashamed of our naked skins.

There are no secrets better kept than the secrets everybody guesses.