There is no peace because the making of peace is at least as costly as the making of war - at least as exigent, at least as disruptive, at least as liable to bring disgrace and prison and death in its wake.
I sometimes wish that people would put a little more emphasis upon the observance of the law than they do upon its enforcement.
I wrote a million words in the first year, and I could never have done that outside of prison.
I don't like being famous - it is like a prison. And driving for Ferrari would make it far worse.
The public have more interest in the punishment of an injury than he who receives it.
To trial bring her stolen charms, and let her prison be my arms.
I am an expert of electricity. My father occupied the chair of applied electricity at the state prison.
No man survives when freedom fails. The best men rot in filthy jails, and those who cry 'appease, appease' are hanged by those they tried to please.
Well does Heaven have care that no man secures happiness by crime.
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.
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.
Hanging was the worst use a man could be put to.
Every crime has, in the moment of its perpetration, Its own avenging angel--dark misgiving, An ominous sinking at the inmost heart.
The penalty for laughing in a courtroom is six months in jail; if it were not for this penalty, the jury would never hear the evidence.
The idea that the sole aim of punishment is to prevent crime is obviously grounded upon the theory that crime can be prevented, which is almost as dubious as the notion that poverty can be prevented.
To be at peace in crime! Ah, who can thus flatter himself.
In prison, you get the chance to see who really loves you.
The most anxious man in a prison is the governor.
Two men look out the same prison bars; one sees mud and the other stars.
Reality becomes a prison to those who can’t get out of it.
Shyness is the prison of the heart.
Wicked deeds are generally done, even with impunity, for the mere desire of occupation.
Laws grind the poor, and rich men rule the law.
Extreme justice is extreme injustice.
