The law does not pretend to punish everything that is dishonest. That would seriously interfere with business.
Reality becomes a prison to those who can’t get out of it.
A Sunday school is a prison in which children do penance for the evil conscience of their parents.
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.
I know not whether laws be right, or whether laws be wrong; All that we know who lie in gaol is that the wall is strong; And that each day is like a year, a year whose days are long.
It is hard, but it is excellent, to find the right knowledge of when correction is necessary and when grace doth most avail.
Well does Heaven have care that no man secures happiness by crime.
You utter a vow, or forge a signature, and you may find yourself bound for life to a monastery, a woman, or prison.
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.
The refined punishments of the spiritual mode are usually much more indecent and dangerous than a good smack.
Those magistrates who can prevent crime, and do not, in effect encourage it.
Wicked deeds are generally done, even with impunity, for the mere desire of occupation.
We judge ourselves by what we feel capable of doing, while others judge us by what we have already done.
Assassination is the extreme form of censorship.
When I was in prison, I was wrapped up in all those deep books. That Tolstoy crap - people shouldn't read that stuff.
No man should be judge in his own case.
Distrust all in whom the impulse to punish is powerful.
Taught from infancy that beauty is woman's sceptre, the mind shapes itself to the body, and roaming round its gilt cage, only seeks to adorn its prison.
Men are not prisoners of fate, but only prisoners of their own minds.
We don't seem to be able to check crime, so why not legalize it and then tax it out of business.
The severest justice may not always be the best policy.
When I was in prison, I was wrapped up in all those deep books. That Tolstoy crap - people shouldn't read that stuff.
The English laws punish vice; the Chinese laws do more, they reward virtue.
No written law has been more binding than unwritten custom supported by popular opinion.
Steal goods and you’ll go to prison, steal lands and you are a king.
