For truth is precious and divine, too rich a pearl for carnal swine.
Belief like any other moving body follows the path of least resistance.
If God wants us to do a thing, he should make his wishes sufficiently clear. Sensible people will wait till he has done this before paying much attention to him.
The man who lets himself be bored is even more contemptible than the bore.
There is nothing which at once affects a man so much and so little as his own death.
If life must not be taken too seriously, then so neither must death.