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

Some slaves are scoured to their work by whips, others by their restlessness and ambition.

The proof of a thing's being right is that it has power over the heart; that it excites us, wins us, or helps us.

It does not matter what the whip is; it is none the less a whip, because you have cut thongs for it out of your own souls.

A great thing can only be done by a great person; and they do it without effort.

Drunkenness is not only the cause of crime, but it is crime; and if any encourage drunkenness for the sake of the profit derived from the sale of drink, they are guilty of a form of moral assassination as criminal as any that has ever been practiced by the braves of any country or of any age.

The Bible is the one Book to which any thoughtful man may go with any honest question of life or destiny and find the answer of God by honest searching.