The evil that is in the world always comes of ignorance, and good intentions may do as much harm as malevolence, if they lack understanding.
One feels inclined to say that the intention that man should be ‘happy’ is not included in the plan of ‘Creation’.
O Lord, deliver me from the man of excellent intention and impure heart: for the heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately wicked.
I may not have gone where I intended to go, but I think I have ended up where I needed to be.
Distance can ruin even the best of intentions.