"Penology" Quotes from Famous Books
... the laws were futile; it shows that the dear old boys from whom we are proud to derive ourselves were a bad lot—of which we have abundant corroborative evidence in their brutal pastimes and in their manners and customs generally. To have restrained that crowd by the rose-water methods of modern penology—that ... — The Shadow On The Dial, and Other Essays - 1909 • Ambrose Bierce |