It is not an event; it is a piece of news.
Too much sensibility creates unhappiness and too much insensibility creates crime.
Speech has been given to man to disguise his thoughts.
What clever man has ever needed to commit a crime? Crime is the last resort of political half-wits.
Mistrust first impulses; they are nearly always good.
Society is divided into two classes: the shearers and the shorn. We should always be with the former against the latter.