Risk

One must not trifle with love

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Wherever law ends, tyranny begins

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

A man over ninety is a great comfort to all his elderly neighbors: he is a picket-guard at the extreme outpost; and the young folks of sixty and seventy feel that the enemy must get by him before he can come near their camp

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

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

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