The real truth is, the number of convicts is too overwhelming for the means of proper and effectual punishment. I despair of any remedy but that which I wish I could hope for - a great reduction in the amount of crime.

The real truth is, the number of convicts is too overwhelming for the means of proper and effectual punishment. I despair of any remedy but that which I wish I could hope for - a great reduction in the amount of crime.

The distinction of being without an honour is becoming a rare and valuable one and should not become extinct.

In every village there will arise a miscreant to establish the most grinding tyranny by calling himself the people.

I never knew a man escape failures, in either mind or body, who worked seven days in a week.

Public opinion is a compound of folly, weakness, prejudice, wrong feeling, right feeling, obstinacy, and newspaper paragraphs.

Agitation is the marshalling of the conscience of a nation to mold its laws.