No crime has been without a precedent.

True wisdom consists in not departing from nature and in molding our conduct according to her laws and model.

Nobody will keep the thing he hears to himself, and nobody will repeat just what he hears and no more.

Hold fast then to this sound and wholesome rule of life; indulge the body only as far as is needful for health.

We haven't time to spare to hear whether it was between Italy and Sicily that he ran into a storm or somewhere outside the world we know-when every day we're running into our own storms, spiritual storms, and driven by vice into all the troubles that Ulysses ever knew.

A man afraid of death will never play the part of a live man.

The worst thing about getting old is evil men cease to fear you