Every mind must make its choice between truth and repose. It cannot have both.
Life consists in what a man is thinking of all day.
Man's life is a progress, not a station.
We do not count a man's years until he has nothing else to count.
We all wish to be of importance in one way or another. The child coughs with might and main, since it has no other claim on the company.
Crime and punishment grow out of one stem. Punishment is a fruit that unsuspected ripens within the flower of the pleasure which concealed it.