“Most virtue is a demand for greater seduction.”
“Peace demands the most heroic labor and the most difficult sacrifice. It demands greater heroism than war. It demands greater fidelity to the truth and a much more perfect purity of conscience.”
“Most institutions demand unqualified faith; but the institution of science makes skepticism a virtue.”
“Evil was seductive and easy, and virtue was difficult and unappreciated.”
“Literature, the most seductive, the most deceiving, the most dangerous of professions.”
“Success always demands a greater effort.”