“But the guilty person is only one of the targets of punishment. For punishment is directed above all at others, at all the potentially guilty.”

“The great principle of Justice: prevent crime rather than punish it. All that is needed to execute a guilty man is a firing squad or a hangman. To prevent there being guilty men requires great astuteness.”

“It is more dangerous that even a guilty person should be punished without the forms of law than that he should escape.”

“Your mother all but accused me of something that is, among my kind, the highest crime a man can commit. There is no trial, only punishment, because it is considered better to let an innocent man die than let a guilty one live." (Page 79.)”

“I am a house gutted by fire where only the guilty sometimes sleep before the punishment that devours them hounds them out in the open. ”

“I hear much of people's calling out to punish the guilty, but very few are concerned to clear the innocent.”