No man ever became extremely wicked all at once.

One never finds in man good or evil in excess.

Never was anything great achieved without danger.

There was never a great genius without a touch of madness.

He was always in a hurry to get where he was not.

No man becomes bad all at once.

People never lie so much as before an election, during a war, or after a hunt.

No man ever followed his genius til it misled him.

No one ever listened themselves out of a job.

There are men whose energies hardly ever carry them beyond looking for the thing they want.

None are so busy as the fool and knave.

No one ever made a difference by being like everyone else.

People never lie so much as after a hunt, during a war, or before an election.

People are never so completely and enthusiastically evil as when they act out of religious conviction.