Christianity is a metaphysics of the hangman.
I never knew a critic who made it his business to lash the faults of other writers that was not guilty of greater himself--as the hangman is generally a worse malefactor than the criminal that suffers by his hand.
Having the critics praise you is like having the hangman say you've got a pretty neck.
Every guilty person is his own hangman.
Nothing, save the hangman's noose, concentrates the mind like piles of cash.
I ran into the preacher, said God was on my side, then I ran into the hangman.
That's why I'm a big supporter of the death penalty. I want to be the hangman. I would put many more people to death like the kids who want to kill other people, I'd put 'em to death.