Virtue by premeditation isn't worth much.
[The lion] began to contemplate me with a kind of quiet premeditation, like that of a slow-witted man fondling an unaccustomed thought.
My understanding of first-degree murder is that premeditation needs to be proven.
The premeditation of death is the premeditation of liberty; he who has learnt to die has forgot to serve.
Let us speak, though we show all our faults and weaknesses, - for it is a sign of strength to be weak, to know it, and out with it - not in a set way and ostentatiously, though, but incidentally and without premeditation.