"Criminals do not die by the hands of the law. They die by the hands of other men."

"It is most unwise for people in love to marry"

"A government that robs Peter to pay Paul can always depend on the support of Paul."

"Life is a disease; and the only diference between one another is the stage of the disease at which he lives."

"Crude classifications and false generalizations are the curse of organized life."

"Hell is full of musical amateurs: music is the brandy of the damned."

"It matters not how strait the gate, How charged with punishments the scroll, I am the master of my fate: I am the captain of my soul."

"Storms make oaks take deeper root."

"Examples is more forcible than precept. People look at my six days in the week to see what I mean on the seventh."

"If you want to build a ship, don't drum up the men to gather wood, divide the work and give orders. Instead, teach them to yearn for the vast and endless sea."

"Few things are impracticable in themselves; and it is for want of application, rather than of means, that men fail to succeed."

"No one tests the depth of a river with both feet."