Every man or woman who loves Him, they hate Him too, because He's a hard God, a jealous God.

The good thing about being old, is you don’t have to worry about dying young.

It didn´t occur to me until later that there´s another truth, very simple: greed in a good cause is still greed.

I hope you liked them, Reader; that they did for you what any good story should do--make you forget the real stuff weighing on your mind for a little while and take you away to a place you've never been. It's the most amiable sort of magic I know.

Few if any seemed to have grasped the Principle of Reality; new knowledge leads always to yet more awesome mysteries. Greater physiological knowledge of the brain makes the existence of the soul less possible yet more probable by the nature of the search.

There's a Mr. Hyde for every happy Jekyll face, a dark face on the other side of the mirror. The brain behind that face never heard of razors, prayers, or the logic of the universe. You turn the mirror sideways and see your face reflected with a sinister left-hand twist, half mad and half sane.

No, it's not a very good story - its author was too busy listening to other voices to listen as closely as he should have to the one coming from inside.