To take upon oneself not punishment, but guilt - that alone would be godlike

Distrust all in whom the impulse to punish is powerful.

Distrust all in whom the impulse to punish is powerful

The broad effects which can be obtained by punishment in man and beast, are the increase of fear, the sharpening of the sense of cunning, the mastery of the desires; so it is that punishment tames man, but does not make him "better."

There is a certain right by which we many deprive a man of life, but none by which we may deprive him of death; this is mere cruelty.

Although the most acute judges of the witches and even the witches themselves, were convinced of the guilt of witchery, the guilt nevertheless was non-existent. It is thus with all guilt.