Badness cannot succeed even in being bad in the same way in which goodness is good. Goodness is, so to speak, itself: badness is only spoiled goodness. Evil is a parasite, not an original thing.

Every object you see before you at this moment -the walls, ceiling, and furniture, the book, your own washed hands and cut fingernails, bears witness to the colonization of Nature of Reason.

I see you are an idiot, whatever else you may be.

Each new power won by man is a power over man as well. Each advance leaves him weaker as well as stronger.

The humblest praise most, while cranks & malcontents praise least. Praise almost seems to be inner health made audible

You would not call a man humane for ceasing to set mousetraps if he did so because he believed there were no mice in the house.

If a thing is free to be good it is also free to be bad. And free will is what has made evil possible. Why, then, did God give them free will? Because free will, though it makes evil possible, is also the only thing that makes possible any love or goodness or joy worth having.