The perfection of a thing consists in its essence; there are perfect criminals, as there are men of perfect probity.
A Sunday school is a prison in which children do penance for the evil conscience of their parents.
In the halls of justice, the only justice is in the halls.
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.
The difference between tax avoidance and tax evasion is the thickness of a prison walls.
Forgiveness, that noblest of all self-denial, is a virtue which he alone who can practise in himself can willingly believe in another.
Probably the only place where a man can feel really secure is in a maximum security prison, except for the imminent threat of release.
A man who has no excuse for a crime, is indeed defenseless!
A just chastisement may benefit a man, though it seldom does; but an unjust one changes all his blood to gall.
We have our own system, ... and journalists in our system are not put in prison for embarrassing the government by revealing things the government might not wish to have revealed. The important thing is that our system, under which journalists can write without fear or favor, should continue.
A pedestal is as much a prison as any small, confined space.
I don't like jail, they got the wrong kind of bars in there.
In jail a man has no personality. He is a minor disposal problem and a few entries on reports. Nobody cares who loves or hates him, what he looks like, what he did with his life. Nobody reacts to him unless he gives trouble. Nobody abuses him. All that is asked of him is that he go quietly to the right cell and remain quiet when he gets there. There is nothing to fight against, nothing to be mad at. The jailers are quiet men without animosity or sadism.
Body is a home, a prison and a grave.
It is certain that the study of human psychology, if it were undertaken exclusively in prisons, would also lead to misrepresentation and absurd generalizations.
Fast closed with double grills And triple gates–the cell To wicked souls is hell; But to a mind that's innocent 'Tis only iron, wood and stone.
While we have prisons it matters little which of us occupy the cells.
When you are younger you get blamed for crimes you never committed and when you're older you begin to get credit for virtues you never possessed. It evens itself out.
If you share the crime of your friend, you make it your own.
The most anxious man in a prison is the governor.
When I was in prison, I was wrapped up in all those deep books. That Tolstoy crap - people shouldn't read that stuff.
One of the many lessons that one learns in prison is, that things are what they are and will be what they will be.
To trial bring her stolen charms, and let her prison be my arms.
When I was in prison, I was wrapped up in all those deep books. That Tolstoy crap - people shouldn't read that stuff.
