William Gilmore Simms Quote

To make punishments efficacious, two things are necessary. They must never be disproportioned to the offence, and they must be certain.


Egeria: Or Voices of Thought and Counsel, for the Woods and Wayside (ed. 1853)


To make punishments efficacious, two things are necessary. They must never be disproportioned to the offence, and they must be certain.

To make punishments efficacious, two things are necessary. They must never be disproportioned to the offence, and they must be certain.

To make punishments efficacious, two things are necessary. They must never be disproportioned to the offence, and they must be certain.

To make punishments efficacious, two things are necessary. They must never be disproportioned to the offence, and they must be certain.