Where the telescope ends the microscope begins, and which has the wider vision?

What says the law? You will not kill. How does it say it? By killing!

You have enemies? Why, it is the story of every man who has done a great deed or created a new idea.

A stand can be made against invasion by an army; no stand can be made against invasion by an idea.

Monsieur' to a convict is a glass of water to a man dying of thirst at sea; ignominy thirsts for respect.

The merciful precepts of Christ will at last suffuse the Code and it will glow with their radiance. Crime will be considered an illness with its own doctors to replace your judges and its hospitals to replace your prisons. Liberty shall be equated with health. Ointments and oil shall be applied to limbs that were once shackled and branded. Infirmities that once were scourged with anger shall now be bathed with love. The cross in place of the gallows: sublime and yet so simple.

Wisdom is a sacred communion.