Classic Moments Daily

Contributions to the Treasury and provision of choruses may be satisfactory evidence of wealth; but they are anything but evidence of innocence

Enormous risk makes men devote a great deal of thought to the problem of executing a crime in safety

Crime by experienced men is hard to detect

The rights of a case are ascertained thereby most surely and most certainly, arises when there is an abundance of witnesses

Malicious falsehood is the worst travesty of justice humanly possible.

No one would venture either to disregard the sentence passed upon him because he was sure that he had had no part in the crime, or to disobey the law

Most of the life of man rests upon hope

You must not use the speech for the prosecution to discover whether your laws are good or bad.

If we must perforce face danger, we may have at least the one consolation, a clear conscience

Involuntary accidents deserve pity, not deliberately planned crimes and acts of wickedness

After refusing to inquire into the facts, how can a man possibly be certain of what he refused to find out?