You are ambitious, which, within reasonable bounds, does good rather than harm.

You have more of a feeling of personal resentment than I have. Perhaps, I have too little of it, but I never thought it paid.

If I were two-faced, would I be wearing this one?

It has long been recognized that the problems with alcohol relate not to the use of a bad thing, but to the abuse of a good thing.

It must now atone in blood for its complicity in wickedness.

Everybody appreciates a compliment.

Human nature will not change. In any future great national trial, compared with the men of this, we shall have as weak and as strong, as silly and as wise, as bad and as good. Let us therefore study the incidents in this as philosophy to learn wisdom from and none of them as wrongs to be avenged.