The truths of religion are never so well understood as by those who have lost the power of reason.

Only crime and the criminal, it is true, confront us with the perplexity of radical evil; but only the hypocrite is really rotten to the core.

If there is something to pardon in everything, there is also something to condemn.

Do not be too moral. You may cheat yourself out of much life so.

First of all, I didn't suggest that we should simply get rid of all prisons.