We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars.
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.
There are only two tragedies in life: one is not getting what one wants, and the other is getting it.
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.