Traveling together is a great test, which has damaged many friendships and even honeymoons, and some people such as [Thomas] Gray and Horace Walpole, never feel quite the same to one another again, and it is nobody's fault, as one knows if one listens to the stories of both, though it seems to be some people's fault more than others.

God very seldom succeeds. He has very nearly everything against him, of course.

Love's a disease. But curable.

Human passions against eternal laws -- that is the everlasting conflict.

Atheism was natural enough, but heresy seemed strange. For, surely, if one could believe anything, one could believe everything.

Never approach a friend's wife or girlfriend with mischief as your goal... unless she's really attractive.

How far does one combine resistance to over-control with social justice, i.e. tolerable living for people in general? We are too selfish to be trusted, if left free, to give away enough to make people comfortable enough to give them a chance. Yet if all this is ordered for us, as to some extent it has to be, it so soon leads to tyranny. It is a very difficult problem. If only human beings had more pity, unselfishness, and justice and didn't need coercion to treat each other decently.