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Iago's soliloquy--the motive-hunting of a motiveless malignity--how awful it is!

What makes like dreary is the want of motive.

A good intention clothes itself with sudden power.

For there's nothing we read of in torture's inventions, Like a well-meaning dunce, with the best of intentions.

Men's minds are as variant as their faces. Where the motives of their actions are pure, the operation of the former is no more to be imputed to them as a crime, than the appearance of the latter; for both, being the work of nature, are alike unavoidable.