I am highly susceptible to the force of all truly religious music, especially to the music of my own church, the church of Shelley, Michelangelo, and Beethoven.

Virtue is insufficient temptation.

You use a glass mirror to see your face; you use works of art to see your soul.

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.

Justice is justice though it's always delayed and finally done only by mistake.

If all the economists were laid end to end, they'd never reach a conclusion.

It is the highest creatures who take the longest to mature, and are the most helpless during their immaturity.