I am so clever that sometimes I don't understand a single word of what I am saying.
One is absolutely sickened, not by 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.