Our plans miscarry because they have no aim.

Reason wishes that the judgement it gives be just; anger wishes that the judgement it has given seem to be just.

The more violent the storm the sooner it is over.

Drunkenness is nothing but a self-induced state of insanity.

Successful crime is dignified with the name of virtue; the good become the slaves of the wicked; might makes right; fear silences the power of the law.

Live for thy neighbor if thou wouldst live for thyself.

Nothing, to my way of thinking, is a better proof of a well-ordered mind than a man's ability to stop just where he is and pass some time in his own company.