We have to be careful that in throwing out the devil, we don't throw out the best part of ourselves.

But every soil becomes finally exhausted, and the ploughshare of evil must always come once more.

There was at all events one advantage in the choice of this day to my birth; my birthday throughout the whole of my childhood was a day of public rejoicing.

The great epochs of our life come when we gain the courage to rechristen our evil as what is best in us.

God is a thought who makes crooked all that is straight.

Truly, it is a blessing and not a blasphemy when I teach that "above all things there stands the heaven of chance, the heaven of innocence, the heaven of accident, the heaven of wantonness".

Is it not better to fall into the hands of a murderer, than into the dreams of a lustful woman?