The Worst Evils Are Those That Never

Nothing Concentrates One's Mind So Much As The Realization That One Is Going To Be Hanged In The Morning!

Lawful And Settled Authority Is Very Seldom Resisted When It Is Well Employed.

No Cause More Frequently Produces Bashfulness Than Too High An Opinion Of Our Own Importance. He That Imagines An Assembly Filled With His Merit, Panting With Expectation, And Hushed With Attention, Easily Terrifies Himself With The Dread Of Disappointing Them, And Strains His Imagination In Pursuit Of Something That May Vindicate The Veracity Of Fame, And Show That His Reputation Was Not Gained By Chance.

When A Man Knows He Is To Be Hanged In A Fortnight, It Concentrates His Mind Wonderfully.

Ignorance, Madam, Pure Ignorance.