The object of punishment is, prevention from evil; it never can be made impulsive to good.

To pity distress is but human; to relieve it is Godlike.

Every school boy and school girl who has arrived at the age of reflection ought to know something about the history of the art of printing.

But let a man know that there are things to be known, of which he is ignorant, and it is so much carved out of his domain of universal knowledge.

Vous tenez a l'exemple [de la peine de mort]. Pourquoi? Pour ce qu'il enseigne. Que voulez-vous enseigner avec votre exemple? Qu'il ne faut pas tuer. Et commen…

If you are allowed to smack children, you should be allowed to smack geriatrics as well because they are just as much of a nuisance as children, if not more.

Monsters remain human beings. In fact, to reduce them to a subhuman level is to exonerate them of their acts of terrorism and mass murder - just as animals are…