“For Time, driving all things before it, may bring with it evil as well as good.”

“In the New Year, may not all your dreams come true, but may only all your good and right dreams come true, because men have evil dreams as well!”

“All change brings bad things and good things to replace the bad and good things that were before. It is natural to look back and say it was better before—but that does not make it true. Different is not worse. It is just different.”

“If God is wiser that we His judgement must differ from ours on many things, and not least on good and evil. What seems to us good may therefore not be good in His eyes, and what seems to us evil may not be evil.”

“Death is not an evil, because it frees us from all evils, and while it takes away good things, it takes away also the desire for them. Old age is the supreme evil, because it deprives us of all pleasures, leaving us only the appetite for them, and it brings with it all sufferings. Nevertheless, we fear death, and we desire old age.”

“The power of fictitious writing, for good as well as for evil, is a thing which ought most seriously to be reflected upon.”