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.
As long as a woman can look ten years younger than her own daughter, she is perfectly satisfied.
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.
