“He hadn’t a single redeeming vice.”

“The supreme vice is shallowness.”

“The worst vice of a fanatic is his sincerity.”

“When they make up their ledger, they balance stupidity by wealth, and vice by hypocrisy.”

“They are more cunning than practical. When they make up their ledger, they balance stupidity by wealth, and vice by hypocrisy.”

“The gods are strange. It is not our vices only they make instruments to scourge us. They bring us to ruin through what in us is good, gentle, humane, loving.”

“I would sooner have fifty unnatural vices than one unnatural virtue. It is unnatural virtue that makes the world, for those who suffer, such a premature Hell.”