"The beauty of literature is that it allows us to live a thousand lives in the span of one."
The world owes all its onward impulses to men ill at ease. The happy man inevitably confines himself within ancient limits.
The laws that forbid the carrying of arms are laws of such a nature. They disarm only those who are neither inclined nor determined to commit crimes.... Such laws make things worse for the assaulted and better for the assailants; they serve rather to encourage than to prevent homicides, for an unarmed man may be attacked with greater confidence than an armed man.