“So long as an opinion is strongly rooted in the feelings, it gains rather than loses in stability by having a preponderating weight of argument against it.”
“I am strong against everything, except against the death of those I love. He who dies gains; he who sees others die loses.”
“I'm having an argument with myself. And I'm losing. So not good.”
“A strong argument for the religion of Christ is this - that offenses against Charity are about the only ones which men on their death-beds can be made - not to understand - but to feel - as crime.”
“There is a constant amount of weight in the world. If one person loses weight, another must gain it. If somebody dies, an appropriate number of babies are born. Do not stand too close to a person who is losing weight. That fat is just looming, looking for a person to inhabit.”
“The irrationality of a thing is no argument against its existence, rather a condition of it.”