Henry David Thoreau Quotes

You can't be all bad all the time.

Will covers a multitude of flaws, just as love covers a multitude of sins.

The Bible does not isolate war, as if it were something separate and unique and quite apart, as we tend to do in our thinking. It is but one of the manifestations of sin, one of the consequences of sin.

I'm not a god - I do bad things.

We can only write well about our sins because it is too difficult to recall a virtuous act or even whether it was the result of good or evil motives.

War never takes a wicked man by chance, the good man always.

Though ambition itself be a vice, yet it is often times the cause of virtues.

Our virtues are often, in reality, no better than vices disguised.

I'm not an evil person. Nobody's really evil.

For those of us on this planet who have never done wrong and are always right and are just down right 100% perfect all the time, life can be hard.

Although a man has so well purged his mind that nothing can trouble or deceive him any more, yet he reached his present innocence through sin.

But he who never sins can little boast Compared to him who goes and sins no more!

a person is never entirely holy or entirely sinful.

No one is born without vices, and he is the best man who is encumbered with the least.

I never was so rapid in my virtue but my vice kept up with me.

Well, heaven forgive him! and forgive us all! Some rise by sin, and some by virtue fall: Some run from brakes of ice, and answer none: And some condemned for a fault alone.

I never wonder to see men wicked, but I often wonder to see them not ashamed.

I think I'll be going to Heaven, because I had good intentions. But my actions are another thing.

There is a heroism in crime as well as in virtue. Vice and infamy have their altars and their religion.

I'm very interested in good and evil and the moral natures of people.

It's a lie, but Heaven will forgive you for it.

The eternal conflict of good and the best with bad and the worst is on.

There is good and there is bad in every human heart, and it is the struggle of life to conquer the bad with the good.

No man who has once heartily and wholly laughed can be altogether irreclaimably bad.

Only a writer who has the sense of evil can make goodness readable.