I shall never forget the hopeless expression of one young man, who had just been sentenced for twenty years, nor how ashamed I felt that one of my own sex, trifling with two lovers, had fanned the jealousy of one against the other, until the tragedy ended in the death of one and the almost lifelong imprisonment of the other.

If girls should be truthful and transparent in any relations in life, surely it is in those of love, involving the strongest passions of which human nature is capable.

As the chaplain told me the sad story, and I noticed the prisoner's refined face and well-shaped head, I felt that the young man was not under the right influences to learn the lesson he needed.
Fear, coercion, punishment, are the masculine remedies for moral weakness, but statistics show their failure for centuries.

Why not change the system and try the education of the moral and intellectual faculties, cheerful surroundings, inspiring influences?
Everything in our present system tends to lower the physical vitality, the self-respect, the moral tone, and to harden instead of reforming the criminal.
My heart was so heavy I did not know what to say to such an assembly of the miserable.

I asked the chaplain what I should say.