We can’t turn life into a pleasure. But we can choose such pleasures as are worthy of us and our immortal souls.

There are many books which we think we have read when we have not. There are, at least, many that we think we remember when we do not. An original picture was, perhaps, imprinted upon the brain, but it has changed with our own changing minds. We only remember our remembrance.

Hell is God's great compliment to the reality of human freedom and the dignity of human choice.

All the exaggerations are right, if they exaggerate the right thing.

I believe in preaching to the converted; for I have generally found that the converted do not understand their own religion.

No animal ever invented anything as bad as drunkenness - or so good as drink.

Ritual will always mean throwing away something: destroying our corn or wine upon the altar of our gods.