Risk

During the first period of a man's life the greatest danger is not to take the risk

To dare is to lose one's footing momentarily. Not to dare is to lose oneself

I equally dislike the favor of the public with the love of a woman, they are both a cloying treacle to the wings of independence

Fanatics have their dreams, wherewith they weave a paradise for a sect

Progress, under whose feet the grass mourns and the forest turns into paper from which newspaper plants grow, has subordinated the purpose of life to the means of subsistence and turned us into the nuts and bolts for our tools

Corruption is worse than prostitution. The latter might endanger the morals of an individual, the former invariably endangers the morals of the entire country

Squeeze human nature into the straitjacket of criminal justice and crime will appear

Let the devil catch you but by a single hair, and you are his forever

A vacuum of ideas affects people differently than a vacuum of air, otherwise readers of books would be constantly collapsing

The most dangerous of all falsehoods is a slightly distorted truth

But there is only one thing which gathers people into seditious commotion, and that is oppression

Wherever law ends, tyranny begins

A torn jacket is soon mended, but hard words bruise the heart of a child

When the house is on fire good girls have to get out as well as the bad ones

The worst thing that can happen to a man who gambles is to win

Sweet words are like honey, a little may refresh, but too much gluts the stomach

Some people are so fond of ill luck that they run halfway to meet it.