Meet the disorder in the outset, the medicine may be too late, when the disease has gained ground through delay.

She only is chaste, who is chaste where there is no danger of detection: she who does not, because she may not, does.

All other creatures look down toward the earth, but man was given a face so that might turn his eyes toward the stars and his gaze upon the sky.

People are slow to claim confidence in undertakings of magnitude.

Nothing is more powerful than custom or habit.

Alas! how difficult it is not to betray one's guilt by one's looks.

Where crime is taught from early years, it becomes a part of nature.