When I was in prison, I was wrapped up in all those deep books. That Tolstoy crap - people shouldn't read that stuff.
Those magistrates who can prevent crime, and do not, in effect encourage it.
When is conduct a crime, and when is a crime not a crime? When Somebody Up There -- a monarch, a dictator, a Pope, a legislator -- so decrees.
The mellow sweetness of pumpkin pie off a prison spoon is something you will never forget.
Extreme justice is extreme injustice.
Do not lay on the multitude the blame that is due to a few.
He who does not prevent a crime when he can, encourages it.
Steal goods and you’ll go to prison, steal lands and you are a king.
A country is in a bad state, which is governed only by laws; because a thousand things occur for which laws cannot provide, and where authority ought to interpose.
Why would anyone expect him to come out smarter? He went to prison for three years, not Princeton.
Taught from infancy that beauty is woman's sceptre, the mind shapes itself to the body, and roaming round its gilt cage, only seeks to adorn its prison.
The virtue of justice consists in moderation, as regulated by wisdom.
I existed in a world that never is - the prison of the mind.
They were being driven to a prison, through no fault of their own, in all probability for life. In comparison, how much easier it would be to walk to the gallows than to this tomb of living horrors!
The guilt of enforced crimes lies on those who impose them.
If it's near dinner-time, the foreman takes out his watch when the jury has retired, and says: "Dear me, gentlemen, ten minutes to five, I declare! I dine at five, gentlemen." "So do I," says everybody else, except two men who ought to have dined at three and seem more than half disposed to stand out in consequence. The foreman smiles, and puts up his watch:--"Well, gentlemen, what do we say, plaintiff or defendant, gentlemen?
A sick person is a prisoner.
Pardon is the virtue of victory.
The world itself is but a large prison, out of which some are daily led to execution.
Probably the only place where a man can feel really secure is in a maximum security prison, except for the imminent threat of release.
Self is the only prison that can bind the soul.
In a civilized society, all crimes are likely to be sins, but most sins are not and ought not to be treated as crimes.
To be at peace in crime! Ah, who can thus flatter himself.
The worst prison is not of stone. It is of a throbbing heart, outraged by an infamous life.
Let us remember that justice must be observed even to the lowest.
