If punishment makes not the will supple it hardens the
offender.--_Locke._
Don't let us rejoice in punishment, even when the hand of God alone
inflicts it. The best of us are but poor wretches just saved from
shipwreck: can we feel anything but awe and pity when we see a
fellow-passenger swallowed by the waves?--_George Eliot._
The work of eradicating crimes is not by making punishment familiar, but
formidable.--_Goldsmith._
The public have more interest in the punishment of an injury than he who
receives it.--_Cato._
The best of us being unfit to die, what an inexpressible absurdity to
put the worst to death!--_Hawthorne._
~Puns.~--I have very little to say about puns; they are in very bad
repute, and so they _ought_ to be. The wit of language is so miserably
inferior to the wit of ideas, that it is very deservedly driven out of
good company. Sometimes, indeed, a pun makes its appearance which seems
for a moment to redeem its species; but we must not be deceived by them:
it is a radically bad race of wit.--_Sydney Smith._
Conceits arising from the use of words that agree in sound but differ in
sense.--_Addison._
~Purposes.~--Man proposes, but God disposes.--_Thomas a Kempis._
A man's heart deviseth his way; but the Lord directeth his
steps.--_Bible._
It is better by a noble boldness to run the risk of being subject to
half of the evils which we anticipate, than to remain in cowardly
listlessness for fear of what may happen.--_Herodotus._
Purposes, like eggs, unless they be hatched into action, will run into
decay.--_Smiles._
~Pursuit.~--The rapture of pursuing is the prize the vanquished
gain.--_Longfellow._
The fruit that can fall without shaking, indeed is too mellow for
me.--_Lady Montagu._