It is the bad people who need to have principles to restrain them.

...All endeavours which are directed to a purely worldly end...contain within themselves the germs of their own corruption.

I can imagine nothing more terrifying than an Eternity filled with men who were all the same. The only thing which has made life bearable…has been the diversity of creatures on the surface of the globe.

Kay was older and bigger than the Wart, so that he was bound to win in the end, but he was more nervous and imaginative. He could imagine the effect of each blow that was aimed at him, and this weakened his defense. Wart was only an infuriated hurricane.

If people reach perfection they vanish, you know.

People commit suicide through weakness, not through strength.

It is good to put your life in other people's hands.