You learn more quickly under the guidance of experienced teachers. You waste a lot of time going down blind alleys if you have no one to lead you.

Evil can be condoned only if in the beyond it is compensated by good and god himself needs immortality to vindicate his ways to man.

Tolerance is only another name for indifference.

Thank God, I can look at a sunset now without having to think how to describe it

But Philip was impatient with himself; he called to mind his idea of the pattern of life: the unhappiness he had suffered was no more than part of a decoration which was elaborate and beautiful; he told himself strenuously that he must accept with gaiety everything, dreariness and excitement, pleasure and pain, because it added to the richness of the design.

Dying is the most hellishly boresome experience in the world! Particularly when it entails dying of 'natural causes'.

I can imagine no more comfortable frame of mind for the conduct of life than a humorous resignation.