Wisdom makes a slow defense against trouble, though a sure one in the end.
The mind is ever ingenious in making its own distress.
As for disappointing them I should not so much mind; but I can't abide to disappoint myself.
The malicious sneer is improperly called laughter.
Logicians have but ill defined As rational the human mind; Reason, they say, belongs to man, But let them prove it if they can.
The work of eradicating crimes is not by making punishment familiar, but formidable.