"We never find out the strength of the evil impulse inside us until we try to fight it."

"The greatest evils in the world will not be carried out by men with guns, but by men in suits sitting behind desks."

"I know many books which have bored their readers, but I know of none which has done real evil."

"Discord is the great ill of mankind; and tolerance is the only remedy for it."

"Our labour preserves us from three great evils - weariness, vice, and want."

"It is an infantile superstition of the human spirit that virginity would be thought a virtue and not the barrier that separates ignorance from knowledge."