A judge who cannot punish, in the end associates themselves with the criminal.

Are we not also married to conscience which we would love to get rid of often enough since it is more bothersome than a man or a woman ever could become?

Yet here I stand poor fool what more, not one wit wiser than before.

There are but two roads that lead to an important goal and to the doing of great things: strength and perseverance. Strength is the lot of but a few privileged men; but austere perseverance, harsh and continuous, may be employed by the smallest of us and rarely fails of its purpose, for its silent power grows irresistibly greater with time.

What we do not understand we do not possess.

Strike the dog dead, it's but a critic!

Help me to discover Thy truth, O Lord, and preserve me from those who have already found it