“I esteem death a trifle, if not caused by guilt.”

It is wisdom to think upon anything before we execute it.

You will not be a chip the richer.

For nobody is curious, who isn’t malevolent.

He who seeks for gain, must be at some expense.

It is good to love in a moderate degree; to distraction, it is not good; but to love to entire distraction, is the thing that my master’s doing.

How often the highest talent lurks in obscurity.

There’s no such thing, you know, as picking out the best woman: it’s only a question of comparative badness, brother.

Disgrace is immortal, and living even when one thinks it dead.

If you want to do something, do it!

I seek the utmost pleasure and the least pain.

Remind a man of what he remembers, and you will make him forget it.

It is much easier to begin than to end.

This is the great fault of wine; it first trips up the feet: it is a cunning wrestler.

It is only when we have lost them that we fully appreciate our blessings.

He who is most on his guard is often himself taken in.

I count him lost, who is lost to shame.

I know my truths. I know exactly why I am the way I am and I’m secure with it. There’s not a single soul that can ever shame or guilt trip me into making me feel and think otherwise.

My vengeance is my guilt.

To execute a man we don’t need proof of his guilt. We only need proof that it’s necessary to execute him. It’s that simple.

Don’t replace your guilt with hate, replace it with love.

We must reject the idea that every time a law’s broken, society is guilty rather than the lawbreaker. It is time to restore the American precept that each individual is accountable for his actions.

One is a great deal less anxious if one feels perfectly free to be anxious, and the same may be said of guilt.

Genuine love comes from knowledge, not from a sense of duty or guilt.

Where the questions of religion are concerned people are guilty of every possible kind of insincerity and intellectual misdemeanor.