An injurious truth has no merit over an injurious lie. Neither should ever be uttered. The man who speaks an injurious truth, lest his soul be not saved if he do otherwise, should reflect that that sort of a soul is not strictly worth saving.

Wherefore, I beseech you let the dog and the onions and these people of the strange and godless names work out their several salvations from their piteous and wonderful difficulties without help of mine, for indeed their trouble is sufficient as it is, whereas an I tried to help I should but damage their cause the more and yet mayhap not live myself to see the desolation wrought.

More than two hundred death penalties are gone from the law books, but the [biblical] texts that authorised them remain.

Good friends, good books and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life.

The joy of killing! the joy of seeing killing done - these are traits of the human race at large.

By trying we can easily learn to endure adversity. Another man's, I mean.

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