Alaric felt that even his utter poverty would be no misfortune if only his captivity were over.

Poverty!--how could any man be poor who had liberty to roam the world?
We all of us acknowledge that the educated man who breaks the laws is justly liable to a heavier punishment than he who has been born in ignorance, and bred, as it were, in the lap of sin; but we hardly realize how much greater is the punishment which, when he be punished, the educated man is forced to undergo.
Confinement to the man whose mind has never been lifted above vacancy is simply remission from labour.

Confinement, with labour, is simply the enforcement of that which has hitherto been his daily lot.

But what must a prison be to him whose intellect has received the polish of the world's poetry, who has known what it is to feed more than the belly, to require other aliment than bread and meat?
And then, what does the poor criminal lose?
His all, it will be said; and the rich can lose no more.

But this is not so.