The longer we dwell on our misfortunes, the greater is their power to harm us.

Trouble springs from idleness, and grievous toil from needless ease.

Only crime and the criminal, it is true, confront us with the perplexity of radical evil; but only the hypocrite is really rotten to the core.

I'm not looking for sympathy at all.

If there is something to pardon in everything, there is also something to condemn.