In argument similes are like songs in love; they describe much, but prove nothing.

Idleness is the beginning of all vice, the crown of all virtues.

They did not know what we can now guess at, contemplating the course of history: that change begins in the soul before it appears in ordinary existence.

From a certain point onward there is no longer any turning back. That is the point that must be reached.

One tells as few lies as possible only by telling as few lies as possible, and not by having the least possible opportunity to do so.

I usually solve problems by letting them devour me.

When one has once accepted and absorbed Evil, it no longer demands to be believed.