Self-interest Usually Brings Injustice With It.

To Tempt And Be Tempted Are Closely Allied; And In Spite Of All The Finest Moral Maxims Buried In The Mind, When Emotion Interferes, When Feeling Makes Its Appearance, One Is Already Much Further Involved That One Realizes, And I Have Still Not Learnt How To Prevent Its Appearance.

Experience Shows That The Frequent Use Of Severe Punishment Has Never Rendered A People Better. The Death Of A Criminal Is A Less Effective Means Of Restraining Crimes Than The Permanent Example Of A Man Deprived Of His Liberty During The Whole Of His Life To Make Amends For The Injury He Has Done To The Public.

Praise Is The Only Gift For Which People Are Really Grateful. Marguerite, Countess Of Blessington I Praise Loudly; I Blame Softly.

The More A Man Knows, The More He Forgives.

Don't Worry About Things You Cannot Alter