Death doesn't affect the living because it has not happened yet. Death doesn't concern the dead because they have ceased to exist.

The Almighty can hardly be such a fool as the churches make out.

It was like making a blunder at a party; there was nothing to do about it, it was dreadfully mortifying, but it showed a lack of sense to ascribe too much importance to it.

Men seek but one thing in life - their pleasure.

Vaguely, as when you are studying a foreign language and read a page which at first you can make nothing of, till a word or a sentence gives you a clue; and on a sudden suspicion, as it were, of the sense flashes across your troubled wits, vaguely she gained an inkling into the workings of Walter's mind. It was like a dark and ominous landscape seen by a flash of lightning and in a moment hidden again by the night. She shuddered at what she saw.

A man ought to work. That's what he's here for. That's how he contributes to the welfare of the community.

Men have ascribed to God imperfections that they would deplore in themselves.