People who are hard, grasping and always ready to take advantage of their neighbors become very rich.

It is the mark of a truly intelligent person to be moved by statistics.

The first prison I ever saw had inscribed on it CEASE TO DO EVIL: LEARN TO DO WELL; but as the inscription was on the outside, the prisoners could not read it.

Such poverty as we have today in all our great cities degrades the poor, and infects with its degradation the whole neighborhood in which they live. And whatever can degrade a neighborhood can degrade a country and a continent and finally the whole civilized world, which is only a large neighborhood.

Of the three official objects of our prison system: vengeance, deterrence, and reformation of the criminal, only one is achieved; and that is the one which is nakedly abominable.

Men are wise in proportion, not to their experience, but to their capacity for experience.

The fickleness of the women I love is only equalled by the infernal constancy of the women who love me.