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Reputation is what men and women think of us; character is what God and angels know of us.

Terms like that, “Humane Society,” are devised with people like me in mind, who don’t care to dwell on what happens to the innocent.

If a man suffers ill, let it be without shame; for this is the only profit when we are dead. You will never say a good word about deeds that are evil and disgraceful.

It is right to give every man his due.

The good die young, because they see it’s no use living if you have got to be good.

The evil that men do lives after them; the good is oft interred with their bones.

I feel bad about a lot of the movies I see that teach kids that if they do bad, they’ll win.

There is no dignity in wickedness, whether in purple or rags; and hell is a democracy of devils, where all are equals.

Every man must decide whether he will walk in the light of creative altruism or in the darkness of destructive selfishness.

If forgers and malefactors are put to death by the secular power, there is much more reason for excommunicating and even putting to death one convicted of heresy.