The truth is rarely pure and never simple.
One is absolutely sickened, not by the crimes that the wicked have committed, but by the punishments that the good have inflicted; and a community is infinitely more brutalised by the habitual employment of punishment than it is by the occasional occurrence of crime.
There are only two tragedies in life: one is not getting what one wants, and the other is getting it.
Man is least himself when he talks in his own person. Give him a mask, and he will tell you the truth.