The only effect of public punishment is to show the rabble how bravely it can be borne; and that every one who hath lost a toe-nail hath suffered worse.
I don't like being famous - it is like a prison. And driving for Ferrari would make it far worse.
The perfection of a thing consists in its essence; there are perfect criminals, as there are men of perfect probity.
The object of punishment is prevention from evil; it never can be made impulsive to good.
It is the spirit and not the form of law that keeps justice alive.
Liberty is rendered even more precious by the recollection of servitude.
Vices are not crimes.
It becomes not a law-maker to be a law-breaker.
The only difference between me and my fellow actors is that I've spent more time in jail.
I am an expert of electricity. My father occupied the chair of applied electricity at the state prison.
Well does Heaven have care that no man secures happiness by crime.
Nor stony tower, nor walls of beaten brass, Nor airless dungeon, nor strong links of iron, Can be retentive to the strength of spirit; But life, being weary of these worldly bars, Never lacks power to dismiss itself.
To be at peace in crime! Ah, who can thus flatter himself.
Justice is justice though it's always delayed and finally done only by mistake.
Forgiveness, that noblest of all self-denial, is a virtue which he alone who can practise in himself can willingly believe in another.
In prison, you get the chance to see who really loves you.
Everyone is a prisoner of his own experiences. No one can eliminate prejudices - just recognize them.
The common argument that crime is caused by poverty is a kind of slander on the poor.
In a civilized society, all crimes are likely to be sins, but most sins are not and ought not to be treated as crimes.
The only real prison is fear, and the only real freedom is freedom from fear.
When I was in prison, I was wrapped up in all those deep books. That Tolstoy crap - people shouldn't read that stuff.
The power of punishment is to silence, not to confute.
Faults of the head are punished in this world, those of the heart in another; but as most of our vices are compound, so also is their punishment.
Hanging was the worst use a man could be put to.
The world itself is but a large prison, out of which some are daily led to execution.
