“It is possible to conceive of something even more terrible than a hell of suffering, and that is a hell of boredom.”

“There is something more terrible than a hell of suffering--a hell of boredom. ”

“Something more terrible than a hell where one suffers may be imagined, and that is a hell where one is bored.”

“An intelligent hell would be better than a stupid paradise.”

“The paradise of the rich is made out of the hell of the poor.”

“Man lives by affirmation even more than he does by bread. a”

“It is difficult to frighten those who are easily astonished; ignorance causes fearlessness. Children have so little claim on hell, that if they should see it they would admire it.”