There is always something ridiculous about the emotions of people whom one has ceased to love.
Man is least himself when he talks in his own person. Give him a mask, and he will tell you the truth.
Imagination is a quality given to a man to compensate him for what he is not, and a sense of humour is provided to console him for what he is.
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.