Wicked deeds are generally done, even with impunity, for the mere desire of occupation.
The most anxious man in a prison is the governor.
Three hundred years ago a prisoner condemned to the Tower of London carved on the wall of his cell this sentiment to keep up his spirits during his long imprisonment: “It is not adversity that kills, but the impatience with which we bear adversity.”
You utter a vow, or forge a signature, and you may find yourself bound for life to a monastery, a woman, or prison.
Body is a home, a prison and a grave.
It is hard, but it is excellent, to find the right knowledge of when correction is necessary and when grace doth most avail.
There is a point at which even justice does injury.
Why would anyone expect him to come out smarter? He went to prison for three years, not Princeton.
Let us remember that justice must be observed even to the lowest.
I don't like jail, they got the wrong kind of bars in there.
One crime has to be concealed by another.
Reality becomes a prison to those who can’t get out of it.
The difference between tax avoidance and tax evasion is the thickness of a prison walls.
The punishment can be remitted; the crime is everlasting.
There's no greater threat to our independence, to our cherished freedoms and personal liberties than the continual, relentless injection of these insidious poisons into our system. We must decide whether we cherish independence from drugs, without which there is no freedom.
To my mind, to kill in war is not a whit better than to commit ordinary murder.
I sometimes wish that people would put a little more emphasis upon the observance of the law than they do upon its enforcement.
The mellow sweetness of pumpkin pie off a prison spoon is something you will never forget.
Well, I don't think prisons are the answer to everything, obviously.
It is more dangerous that even a guilty person should be punished without the forms of law than that he should escape.
It isn't true that convicts live like animals: animals have more room to move around.
I have paid no poll-tax for six years. I was put into a jail once on this account, for one night; and, as I stood considering the walls of solid stone, I could not help being struck with the foolishness of that institution which treated me as if I were mere flesh and blood and bones, to be locked up...I saw that, if there was a wall of stone between me and my townsmen, there was a still more difficult one to climb or break through, before they could get to be as free as I was.
Justice is that virtue of the soul which is distributive according to desert.
Written laws are like spiders' webs, and will, like them, only entangle and hold the poor and weak, while the rich and powerful will easily break through them.
A sick person is a prisoner.
