Small crimes always precede great ones. Never have we seen timid innocence pass suddenly to extreme licentiousness.

Small crimes always precede great ones. Never have we seen timid innocence pass suddenly to extreme licentiousness.

If you share your friend's crime, you make it your own

If you share your friend's crime, you make it your own

I am mortified to be told that, in the United States of America, the sale of a book can become read more

I am mortified to be told that, in the United States of America, the sale of a book can become a subject of inquiry, and of criminal inquiry too.

And who are the greater criminals--those who sell the instruments of death, or those who buy them and use them?

And who are the greater criminals--those who sell the instruments of death, or those who buy them and use them?

It is grievous to be caught.
[Lat., Deprendi miserum est.]

It is grievous to be caught.
[Lat., Deprendi miserum est.]

Fear follows crime, and is its punishment.

Fear follows crime, and is its punishment.

Crime is contagious. If the government becomes a lawbreaker, it breeds contempt for law.

Crime is contagious. If the government becomes a lawbreaker, it breeds contempt for law.

We enact many laws that manufacture criminals, and then a few that punish them.

We enact many laws that manufacture criminals, and then a few that punish them.

The greatest crimes do not arise from a want of feeling for others but from an over-sensibility for ourselves and read more

The greatest crimes do not arise from a want of feeling for others but from an over-sensibility for ourselves and an over-indulgence to our own desires