“Much evil must befall a country before it wholly forgets the Elves, if once they dwelt there.”

“Evils that befall the world are not nearly so often caused by bad men as they are by good men who are silent when an opinion must be voiced.”

“The true roll in determing to embrace or reject anything is not whether it have any evil in it but whether it have more of evil than of good. There are few things wholly evil or wholly good.”

“When one with honeyed words but evil mindPersuades the mob, great woes befall the state.”

“The greatest evil that can befall man is that he should come to think ill of himself.”

“The evil in the world must not make me doubt the existence of God. There could be no evil if there were no God. Before there can be a hole in a uniform, there must be a uniform; before there is death, there must be life; before there is error, there must be truth; before there is a crime, there must be liberty and law; before there is a war, there must be peace; before there is a devil, there must be a God, rebellion against whom made the devil.”