The imagination imitates. It is the critical spirit that creates.
The only thing to do with good advice is to pass it on. It is never of any use to oneself.
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 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.