“Air is no less heavy because we do not detect its weight.”

“We do not condemn it because it is a crime, but it is a crime because we condemn it.”

“It is said that we do not make the guilty party suffer for the sake of suffering; it is nonetheless true that we find it right that he should suffer.”

“Crime brings together honest men and concentrates them.”

“Maniacal suicide. —This is due to hallucinations or delirious conceptions. The patient kills himself to escape from an imaginary danger or disgrace, or to obey a mysterious order from on high, etc.”

“Man cannot become attached to higher aims and submit to a rule if he sees nothing above him to which he belongs. To free him from all social pressure is to abandon him to himself and demoralize him.”

“Socialism is not a science, a sociology in miniature: it is a cry of pain.”