Evil prospers when good men do nothing.
I have never yet heard of a murderer who was not afraid of a ghost.
My dear doctor, I am surprised to hear you say that I am coughing very badly, as I have been practising all night.
His smile is like the silver plate on a coffin.
Assassinate me you may; intimidate me you cannot.
It is the common fate of the indolent to see their rights become prey to the active. The conditions upon which God hath given liberty to man is eternal vigilance; which condition if he break, servitude is at once the consequence of his crime, and the punishment of his guilt.