To meditate an injury is to commit one.

Life's neither a good nor an evil: it's a field for good and evil.

It is another's fault if he be ungrateful, but it is mine if I do not give. To find one thankful man, I will oblige a great many that are not so.

He invites the commission of a crime who does not forbid it, when it is in his power to do so.

I don't trust liberals, I trust conservatives.

The greatest chastisement that a man may receive who hath outraged another, is to have done the outrage; and there is no man who is so rudely punished as he that is subject to the whip of his own repentance.

Trifling trouble find utterance; deeply felt pangs are silent.