“Men rarely see their own actions as unjustified.”

“From the beginning men used God to justify the unjustifiable.”

“… guilt leads to righteous action, but rarely is it the right action.”

“Poets, essayists, chroniclers, wags, and wise men write often about death but have rarely seem it. Physicians and nurses, who see it often, rarely write about it.”

“One will rarely err if extreme actions be ascribed to vanity, ordinary actions to habit, and mean actions to fear.”

“There is no fate that plans men's lives. Whatever comes to us, good or bad, is usually the result of our own action or lack of action.”

“Everything has two aspects: the current aspect, which we see nearly always and which ordinary men see, and the ghostly and metaphysical aspect, which only rare individuals may see in moments of clairvoyance and metaphysical abstraction.”

“History is rarely made by reasonable men.”

“Men have fashioned an image of Chance as an excuse for their own stupidity. For Chance rarely conflicts with intelligence, and most things in life can be set in order by an intelligent sharpsightedness.”

“Very few people see their own actions as truly evil,… It is left to their victims to decide what is evil and what is not.”