I have discovered that all human evil comes from this, man's being unable to sit still in a room.

All human evil comes from a single cause, man's inability to sit still in a room.

All men's miseries derive from not being able to sit in a quiet room alone.

Men never do evil so completely and cheerfully as when they do it from religious conviction.

Truly it is an evil to be full of faults; but it is a still greater evil to be full of them and to be unwilling to recognize them, since that is to add the further fault of a voluntary illusion.

Man's true nature being lost, everything becomes his nature; as, his true good being lost, everything becomes his good.