There is the good and the bad, the great and the low, the just and the unjust. I swear to you that all that will never change.

Do not ever say that the desire to 'do good' by force is a good motive. Neither power-lust nor stupidity are good motives.

A celibate clergy is an especially good idea, because it tends to suppress any hereditary propensity toward fanaticism.

I guess the real reason that my wife and I had children is the same reason that Napoleon had for invading Russia: it seemed like a good idea at the time.

To assert in any case that a man must be absolutely cut off from society because he is absolutely evil amounts to saying that society is absolutely good, and no-one in his right mind will believe this today.