Young men want to be faithful and are not; old men want to be faithless and cannot.
There are only two tragedies in life: one is not getting what one wants, and the other is getting it.
One is absolutely sickened, not by the crimes that the wicked have committed, but by the punishments that the good have inflicted; and a community is infinitely more brutalised by the habitual employment of punishment than it is by the occasional occurrence of crime.