Those griefs burn most which gall in secret.

You cannot, I repeat, successfully acquire it and preserve your modesty at the same time.

The wise man will not pardon any crime that ought to be punished, but he will accomplish, in a nobler way, all that is sought in pardoning. He will spare some and watch over some, because of their youth, and others on account of their ignorance. His clemency will not fall short of justice, but will fulfill it perfectly.

We are mad, not only individually, but nationally. We check manslaughter and isolated murders; but what of war and the much-vaunted crime of slaughtering whole peoples?

War I abhor, and yet how sweet The sound along the marching street Of drum and fife, and I forget Wet eyes of widows, and forget Broken old mothers, and the whole Dark butchery without a soul.

Whenever the speech is corrupted so is the mind.

Why does no one confess his sins? Because he is yet in them. It is for a man who has awoke from sleep to tell his dreams.