Punishment is the last and least effective instrument in the hands of the legislator for the prevention of crime.

Your honesty is not to be based either on religion or policy. Both your religion and policy must be based on it. Your honesty must be based, as the sun is, in …

Engraving is, in brief terms, the Art of Scratch.

Labour without joy is base. Labour without sorrow is base. Sorrow without labour is base. Joy without labour is base.

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…

The law which attempts a man's life [capital punishment] is impractical, unjust, inadmissible. It has never repressed crime-for a second crime is every day com…

Legislation can neither be wise nor just which seeks the welfare of a single interest at the expense and to the injury of many and varied interests at least eq…