The founders of a new colony, whatever Utopia of human virtue and happiness they might originally project, have invariably recognized it among their earliest practical necessities to allot a portion of the virgin soil as a cemetery, and another portion as the site of a prison.

没有人比说真话的人更招人恨。

You can be the ripest, juiciest peach in the world, and there's still going to be somebody who hates peaches.