Violence does, in truth, recoil upon the violent, and the schemer falls into the pit which he digs for another.

No violence, gentlemen — no violence, I beg of you! Consider the furniture!

I do not know whether it came from his own innate depravity or from the promptings of his master, but he was rude enough to set a dog at me. Neither dog nor man liked the look of my stick, however, and the matter fell through. Relations were strained after that, and further inquiries out of the question.

Violence recoils on the violent.