Men may keep a sort of level of good, but no man has ever been able to keep on one level of evil.
In the glad old days, before the rise of modern morbidities...it used to be thought a disadvantage to be misunderstood.
If man is not the image of God, then he is a disease of the dust.
All government is an ugly necessity.
We actually love ourselves more than we love joy.
A good novel tells us the truth about its hero; but a bad novel tells us the truth about its author.