“No wickedness proceeds on any grounds of reason.”

Many difficulties which nature throws in our way, may be smoothed away by the exercise of intelligence.

I have often heard that the outstanding man is he who thinks deeply about a problem, and the next is he who listens carefully to advice.

Bad beginnings, bad endings.

It is easy at any moment to resign the possession of a great fortune; to acquire it is difficult and arduous.

Treachery, though at first very cautious, in the end betrays itself.

Toil and pleasure, dissimilar in nature, are nevertheless united by a certain natural bond.

The less there is of fear, the less there is of danger.

Nowhere are our calculations more frequently upset than in war.

Nothing is so uncertain or unpredictable as the feelings of a crowd.

There are laws for peace as well as war.

Luck rules every human endeavor, especially war.

Dignity is a matter which concerns only mankind.

Dignity is a matter which concerns only mankind.

Dignity is a matter which concerns only mankind.

It is easier to criticize than to correct our past errors.

It is easier to criticize than to correct our past errors.

You call me cruel after I finally chose to love myself fully before you.

The discovery of America was the occasion of the greatest outburst of cruelty and reckless greed known in history.

Terror made me cruel.

Who knows, my God, but that the universe is not one vast sea of compassion actually, the veritable holy honey, beneath all this show of personality and cruelty?

What is it the Bible teaches us? – raping, cruelty, and murder. What is it the New Testament teaches us? – to believe that the Almighty committed debauchery with a woman engaged to be married, and the belief of this debauchery is called faith.

There is only one unpardonable sin–deliberate cruelty. All else can be forgiven.

He was attached by ties stronger than reason could break — chains, forged by habit, which it would be cruel to attempt to loosen.

Terror made me cruel; and finding it useless to attempt shaking the creature off, I pulled its wrist on to the broken pane, and rubbed it to and fro till the blood ran down and soaked the bedclothes.