He has all of the virtues I dislike and none of the vices I admire.

The truths of religion are never so well understood as by those who have lost the power of reason.

Only crime and the criminal, it is true, confront us with the perplexity of radical evil; but only the hypocrite is really rotten to the core.

If there is something to pardon in everything, there is also something to condemn.

All violence consists in some people forcing others, under threat of suffering or death, to do what they do not want to do.