Some rise by sin, and some by virtue fall.

The Christian resolution to find the world ugly and bad has made the world ugly and bad.

Which is worse? the wolf who cries before eating the lamb or the wolf who does not.

Whoever has overthrown an existing law of custom has hitherto always first been accounted a bad man: but when, as did happen, the law could not afterwards be reinstated, and this fact was accepted, the predicate gradually changed. History treats almost exclusively of these bad men who subsequently became good men!

The problem is with man himself and man's soul. We haven't learned how to be just and honest and kind and true and loving.

Great ambition is the passion of a great character. Those endowed with it may perform very good or bad acts. All depends on the principles which direct them.