I do not feel any contempt for an atheist, who is often a man limited and constrained by his own logic to a very sad simplification.

Daybreak is a never-ending glory; getting out of bed is a never ending nuisance.

The timidity of the child or the savage is entirely reasonable; they are alarmed at this world, because this world is a very alarming place. They dislike being alone because it is verily and indeed an awful idea to be alone. Barbarians fear the unknown for the same reason that Agnostics worship it - because it is a fact.

It is shorter to state the things forbidden than the things permitted; precisely because most things are permitted and only a few things forbidden.

There is only one thing that it requires real courage to say, and that is a truism.

A cosmic philosophy is not constructed to fit a man; a cosmic philosophy is constructed to fit a cosmos. A man can no more possess a private religion than he can possess a private sun and moon.

The test of happiness is gratitude.