A hero is no braver than an ordinary man, but he is brave five minutes longer.
The health of the eye seems to demand a horizon. We are never tired, so long as we can see far enough.
One man’s justice is another’s injustice; one man’s beauty, another’s ugliness; one man’s wisdom, another’s folly.
Crime and punishment grow out of one stem. Punishment is a fruit that, unsuspected, ripens with the flower of the pleasure that concealed it.