"Man is tormented by no greater anxiety than to find someone quickly to whom he can hand over that great gift of freedom with which the ill-fated creature is born."

"There is nothing easier than lopping off heads and nothing harder than developing ideas."

"It's in the homes of spiteful old widows that one finds such cleanliness."

"I utter what you would not dare think."

"Man is fond of counting his troubles, but he does not count his joys. If he counted them up as he ought to, he would see that every lot has enough happiness provided for it."

"The second half of a man's life is made up of nothing but the habits he has acquired during the first half."

"We must as second best...take the least of the evils."

"Evil when we are in its power is not felt as evil but as a necessity, or even a duty."

"It is bitter to lose a friend to evil, before one loses him to death."

"The spread of evil is the symptom of a vacuum. whenever evil wins, it is only by default: by the moral failure of those who evade the fact that there can be no compromise on basic principles."

"Evil brings men together."

"No man is justified in doing evil on the ground of expediency."