There is no man so good that if he placed all his actions and thoughts under the scrutiny of the laws, he would not deserve hanging ten times in his life.
All the fame you should look for in life is to have lived it quietly.
There were many terrible things in my life and most of them never happened.
The great and glorious masterpiece of humanity is to know how to live with a purpose.
We do not correct the man we hang; we correct others by him.
We find ourselves more taken with the running up and down, the games, and puerile simplicities of our children, than we do, afterward, with their most complete actions; as if we had loved them for our sport, like monkeys, and not as men.