Public sentiment is everything. With public sentiment, nothing can fail. Without it, nothing can succeed.
Half finished work generally proves to be labor lost.
Those who look for the bad in people will surely find it.
Familiarize yourselves with the chains of bondage and you prepare your own limbs to wear them. Accustomed to trample on the rights of others, you have lost the genius of your own independence and become the fit subjects of the first cunning tyrant who rises among you.
I have no wealthy or popular relations to recommend me.
I have always found that mercy bears richer fruits than strict justice.