Who said “Whipping and abuse are like laudanum: you have to double the dose as the sensibilities…”?

“Thwackum was for doing justice, and leaving mercy to Heaven.”

“Punishment is the last and least effective instrument in the hands of the legislator for the prevention of crime.”

“He must have known me had he seen me as he was wont to see me, for he was in the habit of flogging me constantly. Perhaps he did not recognise me by my face.”

“Our system is the height of absurdity, since we treat the culprit both as a child, so as to have the right to punish him, and as an adult, in order to deny him consolation.”

“No one provokes me with impunity.”

“No one is so thoroughly superstitious as the godless man.”

“The bitterest tears shed over graves are for words left unsaid and deeds left undone.”

“The obstinacy of cleverness and reason is nothing to the obstinacy of folly and inanity.”

“What makes saintliness in my view, as distinguished from ordinary goodness, is a certain quality of magnanimity and greatness of soul that brings life within the circle of the heroic.”

“The burning of rebellious thoughts in the little breast, of internal hatred and opposition, could not long go on without slight whiffs of external smoke, such as mark the course of subterranean fire.”

“A little reflection will enable any person to detect in himself that setness in trifles which is the result of the unwatched instinct of self-will and to establish over himself a jealous guardianship.”