If the law is good, it must be because its effect is good.

A thief, will, under such law, he really more benefitted by feeling its force than in escaping the penalty annexed to its infringement.

No distinction can or ought to be made.

The man who, in, a sane mind, deliberately takes the property of another, should be punished by the law which forbids stealing.

It will have at least one good effect, if none others and that will be to make him less willing to run similar risk, and thus leave to his neighbor the peaceable possession of his goods." "Punishment, if ever administered, should look to the good of the offender.