“It is better to risk saving a guilty person than to condemn an innocent one.”
“It's better that the innocent should live than that the guilty die”
“When one acts on pity against justice, it is the good whom one punishes for the sake of the evil; when one saves the guilty from suffering, it is the innocent whom one forces to suffer. There is no escape from justice, nothing can be unearned and unpaid for in the universe, neither in matter nor in spirit—and if the guilty do not pay, then the innocent have to pay it.”
“There is no better ballast for keeping the mind steady on its keel, and saving it from all risk of crankiness, than business.”
“the tears of the innocent are heavier than the guilty, but in the end they are still just tears”
“No one is innocent after the experience of governing. But not everyone is guilty.”