Your wits make others witty.

self-interest usually brings injustice with it.

Experience shows that the frequent use of severe punishment has never rendered a people better. The death of a criminal is a less effective means of restraining crimes than the permanent example of a man deprived of his liberty during the whole of his life to make amends for the injury he has done to the public.

You were in a mood to quarrel. Please inform me once the inclination passes.

I may be kindly, I am ordinarily gentle, but in my line of business I am obliged to will terribly what I will at all.

In my position you have to read when you want to write and to talk when you would like to read.

I praise loudly and I blame softly.