If there was no moral evil upon earth, there would be no physical evil.

What a miserable world!--trouble if we love, and trouble if we do not love.

I don't know what a scoundrel is like, but I know what a respectable man is like, and it's enough to make one's flesh creep.

What is needed is not a revolution in the opposite direction, but the opposite of a revolution.

We are tainted by modern philosophy which has taught us that all is good, whereas evil has polluted everything and in a very real sense all is evil, since nothing is in its proper place.

Nothing is necessary except God, and nothing is less necessary than pain.

The concept of number is the obvious distinction between the beast and man.