Laws too gentle are seldom obeyed; too severe, seldom executed.
We should make the poor uncomfortable and kick them out of poverty.
A new truth is a truth, an old error is an error.
To be thrown upon one's own resources, is to be cast in the very lap of fortune.
I have never seen the Philosopher's Stone that turns lead into Gold, but I have known the pursuit of it turn a Man's Gold into Lead.
Even peace may be purchased at too high a price.