I have never failed in anything yet, and I never mean to fail.

And I do so want to make the poor people enjoy themselves thoroughly.

Of course, it is a good thing to have one's pills always hidden in jam; but it must be a miserable thing to belong to a section of society where one's jam is invariably full of pills." Elisabeth smiled, but did not speak; Alan was the one person of her acquaintance to whom she would rather listen than talk.
"It is a morbid and unhealthy habit," he went on, "to introduce religion into everything, in the way that English people are so fond of doing.

It decreases their pleasures by casting its shadow over purely human and natural joys; and it increases their sorrow and want by teaching them to lean upon some hypothetical Power, instead of trying to do the best that they can for themselves.

Also it enervates their reasoning faculties; for nothing is so detrimental to one's intellectual strength as the habit of believing things which one knows to be impossible." "Then don't you believe in religion of any kind ?" "Most certainly I do--in many religions.