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Do not put such unlimited power into the hands of husbands. Remember all men would be tyrants if they could

Power is poison. Its effect on Presidents had always been tragic.

“It is always good men who do the most harm in the world

Some day science may have the existence of mankind in power, and the human race can commit suicide by blowing up the world

If you are afraid of loneliness, don't marry.

In putting off what one has to do, one runs the risk of never being able to do it

Our government teaches the whole people by its example. If the government becomes the lawbreaker, it breeds contempt for law; it invites every man to become a law unto himself; it invites anarchy

The devil's most devilish when respectable

So free we seem, so fettered fast we are

One should never risk a joke, even of the mildest and most unexceptional charters, except among people of culture and wit

Avoid lawsuits beyond all things; they pervert your conscience, impair your health, and dissipate your property

We see men fall from high estate on account of the very faults through which they attained it

All that is necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing

One of the tremendous evils of the world, is the monstrous accumulation of power in a few hands

If I had listened to the critics I'd have died drunk in the gutter

Success in crime always invites to worse deeds

Idleness is the beginning of all vice, the crown of all virtues.

Evil is whatever distracts.

Never look backwards or you'll fall down the stairs.

Marriage brings one into fatal connection with custom and tradition, and traditions and customs are like the wind and weather, alltogether incalculable