Which of us is other than a secret to all but God!

It is not in the nature of politics that the best men should be elected. The best men do not want to govern their fellowmen.

What honest boy would pride himself on not picking pockets ? A thief who was trying to reform would. To be conceited of doing one's duty is then a sign of how little one does it, and how little one sees what a contemptible thing it is not to do it. Could any but a low creature be conceited of not being contemptible? Until our duty becomes to us common as breathing, we are poor creatures.

Why should my love be powerless to help another?

Friends, if we be honest with ourselves, we shall be honest with each other.

A fairytale is not an allegory. There may be allegory in it, but it is not an allegory.

Annihilation itself is no death to evil. Only good where evil was, is evil dead. An evil thing must live with its evil until it chooses to be good. That alone is the slaying of evil.