A happy family is but an earlier heaven.

The frontier between hell and heaven is only the difference between two ways of looking at things.

If you go to Heaven without being naturally qualified for it, you will not enjoy yourself there

Heaven, as conventionally conceived, is a place so inane, so dull, so useless, so miserable, that nobody has ever ventured to describe a whole day in heaven, though plenty of people have described a day at the seaside.

To be in hell is to drift; to be in heaven is to steer

The philosopher is Nature's pilot. And there you have our difference: to be in hell is to drift: to be in heaven is to steer.