Even of death Christianity has made a terror which was unknown to the gay calmness of the Pagan and the stoical repose of the Indian.

I have met a thousand scamps; but I never met one who considered himself so. Self-knowledge isn't so common.

Excess always carries its own retribution.

A just chastisement may benefit a man, though it seldom does; but an unjust one changes all his blood to gall.

A little scandal is an excellent thing; nobody is ever brighter or happier of tongue than when he is making mischief of his neighbors.

Petty laws breed great crimes.

It is hard work to be good when you are very little and very hungry, and have many sticks to beat you, and no mother's lips to kiss you.