The function of vice is to keep virtue within reasonable bounds.
A man should be just cultured enough to be able to look with suspicion upon culture at first, not second hand.
Evil is like water, it abounds, is cheap, soon fouls, but runs itself clear of taint.
Man is God's highest present development. He is the latest thing in God.
Genius might be described as a supreme capacity for getting its possessors into trouble of all kinds
One of the first businesses of a sensible man is to know when he is beaten, and to leave off fighting at once.