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.
A dreamer is one who can only find his way by moonlight, and his punishment is that he sees dawn before the rest of the world.
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.
Man is least himself when he talks in his own person. Give him a mask, and he will tell you the truth.
Well, in the first place girls never marry the men they flirt with. Girls don't think it right.
