"We never find out the strength of the evil impulse inside us until we try to fight it."

"The greatest evils in the world will not be carried out by men with guns, but by men in suits sitting behind desks."

"It is a good rule after reading a new book, never to allow yourself another new one till you have read an old one in between."

"What a terrible era in which idiots govern the blind."

"Men of few words are the best men."

"Fishes live in the sea, as men do a-land; the great ones eat up the little ones."