Happy is the hearing man; unhappy the speaking man.
There are always difficulties arising which tempt you to believe that your critics are right. To map out a course of action and follow it to an end requires courage.
Crime and punishment grow out of one stem. Punishment is a fruit that, unsuspected, ripens with the flower of the pleasure that concealed it.
The eloquent man is he who is no beautiful speaker, but who is inwardly and desperately drunk with a certain belief.