For hostile word let hostile word be paid.
If time is money, it seems moral to save time, above all one’s own, and such parsimony is excused by consideration for others. One is straight-forward.
It is true, there are many bad people; there are more of them than in the past, but that is because there are more people, meaning the population has tripled; there must be three times more bad people.
One may no more live in the world without picking up the moral prejudices of the world than one will be able to go to hell without perspiring.
One who is injured ought not to return the injury, for on no account can it be right to do an injustice; and it is not right to return an injury, or to do evil to any man, however much we have suffered from him.
Justice should remove the bandage from her eyes long enough to distinguish between the vicious and the unfortunate.
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