Justice, though moving with tardy pace, has seldom failed to overtake the wicked in their flight. [Lat., Raro antecedentem scelestum Deseruit pede poena claudo.]
Let evil wait for the day on which it must fall.
What is forgotten, however, is that many times the Good we create leads to Evil that will destroy us.
Civil wars are the greatest of evils. They are inevitable, if we wish to reward merit, for all will say that they are meritorious.
The greatest penalty of evil-doing is to grow into the likeness of a bad man.
Good never come of such evil, a happier end was not in nature to so unhappy a beginning.
The man who forgives pays a tremendous price - the price of the evil he forgives.
It is a governing principle of nature, that the agency which can produce most good, when perverted from its proper aim, is most productive of evil.
