It is easier to punish than to understand
(McDermott)

Innocence has nothing to dread
(Racine)

We lay aside letters never to read them again, and at last we destroy them out of discretion, and so disappears the most beautiful, the most immediate breath of life, irrecoverably for ourselves and others.
(Goethe)

One precedent creates another. They soon accumulate and constitute law. Hi Sparteye
(Junius)

You have not converted a man because you have silenced him
(John Viscount Morley)

It is not enough to do good; one must do it in the right way.
(John Viscount Morley)

Mediocrity has no greater consolation than in the thought that genius is not immortal.
(Goethe)