Those who have had none of the cares of this life to harass and disturb them, have been obliged to have recourse to the hopes and fears of the next to vary the prospect before them.

The Christian idea of a perfect heaven that is something other than a non-existence is a contradiction in terms.

"This must be heaven", he says. "No. It's Iowa," I reply automatically

Do not ask God the way to heaven; he will show you the hardest way

Paradise is a center whither the souls of all men are proceeding, each sect in its particular road.

And that inverted Bowl they call the Sky, Whereunder crawling cooped we live and die, Lift not your hands to It for help-for it As impotently moves as you or I

Heaven is equally distant everywhere.

Believe in something for another World, but dont be too set on what it is, and then you wont start out that life with a disappointment.

Men have feverishly conceived a heaven only to find it insipid, and a hell to find it ridiculous.

What they do in heaven we are ignorant of; what they do not we are told expressly, that they neither marry, nor are given in marriage.