“Evil is nourished and grows by concealment.”

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

“There is no worse evil than a bad woman; and nothing has ever been produced better than a good one.”

“If God is omnipotent, omniscient and wholly good, whence evil? If God wills to prevent evil but cannot, then He is not omnipotent. If He can prevent evil but does not, then he is not good. In either case he is not God.”

“If I cannot move heaven, I will raise hell.”

“Come what may, all bad fortune is to be conquered by endurance.”

“Easy is the descent to hell; all night long, all day, the doors of dark Hades stand open; but to retrace the path; to come out again to the sweet air of Heaven - there is the task, there is the burden.”