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.
Man is least himself when he talks in his own person. Give him a mask, and he will tell you the truth.
A dreamer is one who can only find his way by moonlight, and his punishment is that he sees dawn before the rest of the world.
As long as a woman can look ten years younger than her own daughter, she is perfectly satisfied.
