The man who is being punished is no longer he who has done the deed. He is always the scapegoat.
Nothing has been more dearly bought than the minute portion of human reason and feeling of liberty upon which we now pride ourselves.
Neither necessity nor desire, but the love of power, is the demon of mankind. You may give men everything possible health, food, shelter, enjoyment but they are and remain unhappy and capricious, for the demon waits and waits; and must be satisfied.
A young man can be most surely corrupted when he is taught to value the like-minded more highly than the differently minded.