You can easily find people who are ten times as rich at sixty as they were at twenty but not one of them will tell you that they are ten times as happy

No severity of punishment deters when detection is uncertain, as it always must be.

The fact that a believer is happier than a skeptic is no more to the point than the fact that a drunken man is happier than a sober one.

Justice is justice though it's always delayed and finally done only by mistake.

What is the use of straining after an amiable view of things, when a cynical view is most likely to be the true one?.

I do not want to make my stomach a graveyard of dead animals.

Liberty is the breath of life to nations.