It seemed a good idea at the time.

There is no wider gulf in the universe than yawns between those on the hither and thither side of vital experience.

Only part of us is sane: only part of us loves pleasure and the longer day of happiness, wants to live to our nineties and die in peace, in a house that we built, that shall shelter those who come after us. The other half of us is nearly mad. It prefers the disagreeable to the agreeable, loves pain and its darker night despair, and wants to die in a catastrophe that will set back life to its beginnings and leave nothing of our house save its blackened foundations.

There is in every one of us an unending see-saw between the will to live and the will to die.

I believe if people are looking for the truth, the truth of the Christian religion will come out and meet them.

I don't believe that to understand is necessarily to pardon, but I feel that to understand makes one forget that one cannot pardon.

His smile bore the same relation to a real smile as false teeth do to real teeth.