Evil is easy, and has infinite forms.

Opinion is, as it were, the queen of the world, but force is its tyrant.

I am in the utmost perplexity, yand have wished a hundred times, that if there is a A God, nature would manifest him without ambiguity, and that if there is not, every imaginary sign of his existence might vanish : in short, let nature speak distinctly, or be totally silent, and I shall know what course to take.

We are only falsehood, duplicity, contradiction; we both conceal and disguise ourselves from ourselves.

Lord, help me to do great things as though they were little, since I do them with your power; And little things as though they were great, since I do them in your name!

We never do evil so effectually as when we are led to do it by a false principle of conscience.

Evil is easily discovered; there is an infinite variety; good is almost unique. But some kinds of evil are almost as difficult to discover as that which we call good; and often particular evil of this class passes for good. It needs even a certain greatness of soul to attain to this, as to that which is good.