The unforgivable crime is soft hitting. Do not hit at all if it can be avoided; but never hit softly.
Far better it is to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs, even though checkered by failure, than to take rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy much nor suffer much, because they live in the grey twilight that knows not victory nor defeat.
No man is above the law and no man is below it: nor do we ask any man's permission when we ask him to obey it.