“Remorse is the fruit of crime.”

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.

Today there’s more fellowship among snakes than among mankind. Wild beasts spare those with similar markings.

So Nature ordains; no evil example corrupts us so soon and so rapidly as one that has been set at home, since it comes into the mind on high authority.

The tongue is the vile slave’s vilest part.

Honesty is praised and left in the cold.

Fate would have no divinity if we were wise: it is we who make her a goddess and place her in heaven.

I finally faced the fact that it isn’t a crime not having friends. Being alone means you have fewer problems.

The blood of man should never be shed but to redeem the blood of man. It is well shed for our family, for our friends, for our God, for our country, for our kind. The rest is vanity; the rest is crime.

In a closed society where everybody’s guilty, the only crime is getting caught. In a world of thieves, the only final sin is stupidity.

The Democratic Party was always there on crime, but in the past we let the ideologues on the left dominate. The Republicans may still let the ideologues on the right dominate.

People are angry and dispirited about government because of a failure to do something about crime.

There is one, and only one, thing in modern society more hideous than crime namely, repressive justice.

Crime can be a unifying argument – not an argument that people use as a code for us vs. them.

People have told me about organized crime in the fashion industry, but I can’t talk about that. I’m looking to stay alive.