There are times when even the most potent governor must wink at transgression, in order to preserve the laws inviolate for the future.
The worst of our evils we blindly inflict upon ourselves; our officers cannot remove them, even if they would.
Nature has not implanted any power in man that was not meant to be exercised at times, though too often our powers have been abused.
Many sensible things banished from high life find an asylum among the mob.
Life is a voyage that’s homeward-bound!
Familiarity with danger makes a brave man braver, but less daring.
A man thinks that by mouthing hard words he understands hard things.