“A puritan is a person who pours righteous indignation into the wrong things.”

“At the bottom of Puritanism one finds envy of the fellow who is having a better time in the world, and hence hatred of him. At the bottom of democracy one finds the same thing. This is why all Puritans are democrats and all democrats are Puritans.”

“It would annoy me less that we’re heading into a new puritanical era if the puritanism concerned itself about things that matter.”

“To the Puritan all things are impure, as somebody says.”

“Now if thou be a bondslave vile become,
No wrong is that, but God's most righteous doom.”

“All right and wrong, confounded in impious madness, turned from us the righteous will of the gods.”
Omnia fanda nefanda malo permixta furore iustificam nobis mentem avertere deorum.

“Indignation at literary wrongs I leave to men born under happier stars. I cannot afford it.”

“Any person who wants to govern the world is by definition the wrong person to do it.”

“Said the self-righteous preacher, "What, in your judgment, is the greatest sin in the world?"
"That of the person who sees other human beings as sinners," said the Master.”

“No plan can prevent a stupid person from doing the wrong thing in the wrong place at the wrong time - but a good plan should keep a concentration from forming.”