The necessity of war, which among human actions is the most lawless, hath some kind of affinity with the necessity of law.

War begets quiet, quiet idleness, idleness disorder, disorder ruin; likewise ruin order, order virtue, virtue glory, and good fortune.

The world is itself but a larger prison, out of which some are daily selected for execution.

It is observed in the course of worldly things, that men's fortunes are oftener made by their tongues than by their virtues; and more men's fortunes overthrown thereby than by vices.

When a felon's not engaged in his employment Or maturing his felonious little plans His capacity for innocent enjoyment Is just as great as any honest man's Ah! When constabulary duty's to be done A policeman's lot is not a happy one.

Better were it to be unborn than to be ill bred.

Whosoever in writing a modern history shall follow the truth too near the heels it may haply strike out his teeth.