“Punishment is not for revenge, but to lessen crime and reform the criminal.”
Source : Quoted in Rachel E Cresswell and Katharine Fry Memoir of the Life of Elizabeth Fry (1848).
“Contemplation places us in a purity and radiance which is far above our understanding.”
Source : "On the track, sometime between courses, a race meeting is going on" by Paul Weaver, www.theguardian.com. June 22, 2006. 
“Mistakes are good, successes are great, and idleness is a sin.”
Source : Mike Michalowicz (2008). “The Toilet Paper Entrepreneur: The Tell-it-like-it-is Guide to Cleaning Up in Business, Even If You are at the End of Your Roll”, p.112, Toilet Paper Entrepreneur
Source : Charles Sturt (1834). “Two expeditions into the interior of southern Australia during ... 1828, 1829, 1830 and 1831: with observations on New South Wales”, p.58
Doris Lessing
Novelist
Giulio Andreotti
Italian Politician
