It is sheer folly when all is gone to lose even one's passage money.

Refrain from doing ill; for one all powerful reason, lest our children should copy our misdeeds; we are all too prone to imitate whatever is base and depraved.

Remote though your farm may be, It's something to be the lord of one green lizard-and free.

Whatever guilt is perpetrated by some evil prompting, is grievous to the author of the crime. This is the first punishment of guilt that no one who is guilty is acquitted at the judgment seat of his own conscience.

Many commit the same crime with a very different result. One bears a cross for his crime; another a crown.

No wicked man knows happiness, and least of all the seducer of others.

No one ever became thoroughly bad in one step.