“This is his first punishment, that by the verdict of his own heart no guilty man is acquitted.”

Who will watch the watchers?

Give up all hope of peace so long as your mother-in-law is alive.

It is not easy for men to rise whose qualities are thwarted by poverty.

Dare to do things worthy of imprisonment if you mean to be of consequence.

Now we suffer the evils of a long peace; luxury more cruel than war broods over us and avenges a conquered world.

Bad men hate sin through fear of punishment; good men hate sin through their love of virtue.

If you are capable of submitting to insult you ought to be insulted.

Writing in the incurable itch that possesses many.

Many individuals have, like uncut diamonds, shining qualities beneath a rough exterior.

All wish to possess knowledge, but few, comparatively speaking, are willing to pay the price.

It is but the weak and little mind that rejoices in revenge

The wise man sets bounds even to his innocent desires.

Whenever fortune wishes to joke, she lifts people from what is humble to the highest extremity of affairs.

In the present state of the world it is difficult not to write lampoons.

Many a man has met death from the rushing flood of his own eloquence; others from the strength and wondrous thews in which they have trusted.

Honesty is admired, and starves.

Why do we hold onto negativity? For some reason, we believe that others are affected by our experience of remaining upset, hurt or angry. Holding on to pain, anger, guilt or shame is the glue that binds us to the situation we want to escape.

You don’t care if I’m guilty or not. You gonna make sure I go to jail for life.

Your guilty all the same. Too sick to be ashamed. You want to point the finger, but there’s no one else to blame.

We may not all be equally guilty. But we are all equally responsible for building a decent and just society.

Paintings are seldom guilty and often framed for crimes they did not commit. Some cover holes-holes in walls, holes in lives. Some make holes-in wallets, holes in hearts in negative space.

Guilt keeps people imprisoned in themselves.

From the body of one guilty deed a thousand ghostly fears and haunting thoughts proceed.

It is better and more satisfactory to acquit a thousand guilty persons than to put a single innocent one to death.