Every action has its pleasures and its price.

You might win some, but you just lost one.

How little can we foresee the consequences either of wise or unwise action, of virtue or of malice. Without this measureless and perpetual uncertainty, the drama of human life would be destroyed.

Life often leaves us standing bare, naked, and dejected with a lost opportunity.

Consequences from evil will make your past haunt you.

The tumultuous populace of large cities are ever to be dreaded. Their indiscriminate violence prostrates for the time all public authority, and its consequences are sometimes extensive and terrible.