Hell is paved with good intentions.

Is there such depravity in man as that he should injure another without benefit to himself?

All this [wealth] excludes but one evil, poverty.

Almost all the moral good which is left among us is the apparent effect of physical evil.

No evil is insupportable but that which is accompanied with consciousness of wrong.

The worst evils are those that never arrive.

Combinations of wickedness would overwhelm the world, by the advantage which licentious principles afford, did not those who have long practised perfidy grow faithless to each other.

All the arguments which are brought to represent poverty as no evil show it evidently to be a great evil.

Power is gradually stealing away from the many to the few, because the few are more vigilant and consistent.