Morals - all correct moral laws - derive from the instinct to survive. Moral behavior is survival behavior above the individual level.

The Earth is just too small and fragile a basket for the human race to keep all its eggs in.

Delusions are often functional. A mother's opinions about her children's beauty, intelligence, goodness, et cetera ad nauseam, keep her from drowning them at birth.

Democracy is four wolves and a sheep voting on dinner.

If God existed (a question concerning which Jubal maintained a meticulous intellectual neutrality) and if He desired to be worshiped (a proposition which Jubal found inherently improbable but conceivably possible in the dim light of his own ignorance), then (stipulating affirmatively both the above) it nevertheless seemed wildly unlikely to Jubal to the point of reductio ad absurdum that a God potent to shape galaxies would be titillated and swayed by the whoop-te-do nonsense the Fosterites offered Him as "worship.

There is no worse tyranny than to force a man to pay for what he does not want merely because you think it would be good for him.

Wisdom includes not getting angry unnecessarily. The Law ignores trifles and the wise man does, too.