There will be a new great religion, the Religion of Methuselhites: with pomps and priests and altars.  Its devout crusaders will vow themselves in thousands with a great voice to live long.  But there is one comfort: they won't.

If there is one thing worse than the modern weakening of major morals it is the modern strengthening of minor morals.  Thus it is considered more withering to accuse a man of bad taste than of bad ethics.  Cleanliness is not next to godliness nowadays, for cleanliness is made an essential and godliness is regarded as an offence....

Thus, as a result of heightened consciousness, a man feels as if it's all right if he's bad as long as he knows it- as though that were any consolation.

The man whose only goal is his own happiness is bad; he whose goal is the good opinion of others is weak; he whose goal is the happiness of others is good; he whose goal is God, is great!...

I know which is the road that leads home and if I weave like a drunken man as I go down it that does not mean the road is the wrong one.