Hard cases, it is said, make bad law.
Well does Heaven have care that no man secures happiness by crime.
America is the land of the second chance – and when the gates of the prison open, the path ahead should lead to a better life.
It is certain that the study of human psychology, if it were undertaken exclusively in prisons, would also lead to misrepresentation and absurd generalizations.
No matter how you seem to fatten on a crime, that can never be good for the bee which is bad for the hive.
I don't like being famous - it is like a prison. And driving for Ferrari would make it far worse.
While we have prisons it matters little which of us occupy the cells.
The number of laws is constantly growing in all countries and, owing to this, what is called crime is very often not a crime at all, for it contains no element of violence or harm.
Virtue pardons the wicked, as the sandal-tree perfumes the axe which strikes it.
Crimes lead one into another; they who are capable of being forgers are capable of being incendiaries.
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.
Justice renders to every one his due.
The law does not pretend to punish everything that is dishonest. That would seriously interfere with business.
If you share the crime of your friend, you make it your own.
The degree of civilization in a society can be judged by entering its prisons.
I don't like jail, they got the wrong kind of bars in there.
Everyone is a prisoner of his own experiences. No one can eliminate prejudices - just recognize them.
Law is merely the expression of the will of the strongest for the time being, and therefore laws have no fixity, but shift from generation to generation.
When it comes to freedom, we are but prisoners of our own desires.
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?
To seek the redress of grievances by going to law, is like sheep running for shelter to a bramble bush.
No man should be judge in his own case.
Vices are not crimes.
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.
It is impossible to go through life without trust: That is to be imprisoned in the worst cell of all, oneself.
