Risk

Fashions have done more harm than revolutions

Every man over forty is a scoundrel

He who knows how to flatter also knows how to slander

Idleness is sweet, and its consequences are cruel

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

The devil's most devilish when respectable

So free we seem, so fettered fast we are

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

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

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

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

By failing to prepare, you are preparing to fail

Marrying for love may be a bit risky, but it is so honest that God can't help but smile on it

In modern business it is not the crook who is to be feared most, it is the honest man who doesn't know what he is doing

Take away love and our earth is a tomb