“A happy familiy is but an earlier heaven.”

“In heaven an angel is no one in particular.”

“To be in hell is to drift; to be in heaven is to steer.”

“Nobody could stand an eternity of Heaven.”

“Heaven is the most angelically dull place in all creation”

“Heaven, as conventionally conceived, is a place so inane, so dull, so useless, so miserable that nobody has ever ventured to describe a whole day in heaven, though plenty of people have described a day at the seaside.”

“The secret of being miserable is to have leisure to bother about whether you are happy or not. The cure for it is occupation, because occupation means pre-occupation; and the pre-occupied person is neither happy nor unhappy, but simply alive and active. That is why it is necessary to happiness that one should be tired.”