“Wickedness is always easier than virtue; for it takes the short cut to everything.”

“While the people retain their virtue and vigilance, no administration, by any extreme of wickedness or folly, can very seriously injure the government in the short space of four years.”

“The smug mask of virtue triumphant could be almost as horrible as the face of wickedness revealed.”

“In this age, which believes that there is a short-cut to everything, the greatest lesson to be learned is that the most difficult way, in the long run, is the easiest.”

“Just about everything in this world is easier said than done, with the exception of ‘systematically assisting Sisyphus’s stealthy, syst-susceptible sister,’ which is easier done than said.”

“The telling of a story, like virtually everything in this life, was always made all the easier by a cup of tea.”

““That your solution to everything? Cut somebody’s throat?”
“Always slows them down.””

“A life cut tragically short, but with more colour perhaps than one may find in her work.”

“Taking a thing apart is always faster than putting something together. This is true of everything except marriage.”

“It is easier for me to see everything as one thing than to see one thing as one thing.”