Prison is a Socialist paradise where equality prevails, everything is supplied, and competition is eliminated.

Men will fight for a superstition quite as quickly as for a living truth -often more so, since a superstition is so intangible you cannot get at it to refute it, but truth is a point of view, and so is changeable.

Wisdom must go with sympathy, else the emotions will become maudlin and pity may be wasted on a poodle instead of a child - on a fieldmouse instead of a human soul.

Man is not what he thinks he is, but what he thinks, he is.

If pleasures are greatest in anticipation, just remember that this is also true of trouble.

Cultivate only the habits that you are willing should master you.

Men are not punished for their sins, but by them.

You had better be a round peg in a square hole than a square peg in a square hole. The latter is in for life, while the first is only an indeterminate sentence.

Never explain. Your friends do not need it and your enemies will not believe it anyway.

To escape criticism - do nothing, say nothing, be nothing.