The most wonderful aspect of the universal scheme of things is the action of free beings under divine guidance.

False opinions are like false money, struck first of all by guilty men and thereafter circulated by honest people who perpetuate the crime without knowing what they are doing.

If there was no moral evil upon earth, there would be no physical evil.

All pain is a punishment, and every punishment is inflicted for love as much as for justice.

Man in general, if reduced to himself, is too wicked to be free.

There is no philosophy without the art of ignoring objections.

We are tainted by modern philosophy which has taught us that all is good, whereas evil has polluted everything and in a very real sense all is evil, since nothing is in its proper place.

I don't know what a scoundrel is like, but I know what a respectable man is like, and it's enough to make one's flesh creep.