If punishment reaches not the mind and makes not the will supple, it hardens the offender.

Children (nay, and men too) do most by example.

He that judges without informing himself to the utmost that he is capable, cannot acquit himself of judging amiss

The difference, so observable in men's understandings and parts, does not arise so much from their natural faculties, as acquired habits.

Good and evil, reward and punishment, are the only motives to a rational creature

Laws provide, as much as ispossible that the goods and health of subjects be not injured by the fraud and violence of others. They do not guard them from thenegligence or ill-husbandry of the possessors themselves.

I have spent more than half a lifetime trying to express the tragic moment.