To know God better is only to realize how impossible it is that we should ever know him at all. I know not which is more childish to deny him, or define him.
Death is only a larger kind of going abroad.
There is nothing which at once affects a man so much and so little as his own death.
We all love best not those who offend us least, nor those who have done most for us, but those who make it most easy for us to forgive them.
There is no such source of error as the pursuit of truth.
Let every man be true and every god a liar.
Those who have never had a father can at any rate never know the sweets of losing one. To most men the death of his father is a new lease of life.
Life is one long process of getting tired.
For truth is precious and divine, too rich a pearl for carnal swine.
God and the Devil are an effort after specialization and the division of labor.
Loyalty is still the same Whether it win or lose the game True as a dial to the sun Although it be not shined upon.
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.
Man is God's highest present development. He is the latest thing in God.
To put one's trust in God is only a longer way of saying that one will chance it.