“One must be cunning and wicked in this world.”

“When he was praised by some wicked men, he said, "I am sadly afraid that I must have done some wicked thing."”

“Oh, what a wicked world it is that drives a man to sin.”

“Nothing is permanent in this wicked world, not even our troubles.”

“In things that a man would not be seen in himself, it is a point of cunning to borrow the name of the world; as to say, "The world says," or "There is a speech abroad."”

“But what world says that [I'm wicked]? It can only be the next world. This world and I are on excellent terms.”

“It is true that God is even in the tiger, but we must not go and face the animal. So it is true that God dwells even in the most wicked, but it is not meet that we should associate with the wicked.”

“How wicked, my brothers, innocent milk must always seem to me now.”

“In this wicked and selfish world, with no essential values… being asshole is self-defense.”

“A wicked generation seeketh ever some new thing and the publishers must publish and the bookseller must book-sell in order to live.”