The law is an adroit mixture of customs that are beneficial to society, and could be followed even if no law existed, and others that are of advantage to a ruling minority, but harmful to the masses of men, and can be enforced on them only by terror. – Peter Kropotkin, Words of a Rebel

Some circumstantial evidence is very strong, as when you find a trout in the milk. – Henry David Thoreau

Only the man who has enough good in him to feel the justice of the penalty can be punished. – William Ernest Hocking