As oft as good from evil. Motives? Pooh!
Why, half the ills that vex mankind arise
From motives that are unimpeachable.
Faus. If goodly seed, well sown, bear evil fruit,
The fault is scarcely with the husbandman.
Meph. But why sow any goodly seed at all,
If evil may result from doing so?
Faus. Why try to stop my sowing goodly seed,
If it produce the crops that please you best?
Meph. He’s hit the blot! This clear-cut brain of his