Read this just last night and wanted to quote it somewhere: "For instance, the law of England is much more severe upon offences against property than against t

Read this just last night and wanted to quote it somewhere: "For instance, the law of England is much more severe upon offences against property than against the person, as becomes a people whose ruling passion is money. A man may half kick his wife to death or inflict horrible sufferings upon his children at a much cheaper rate of punishment than he can compound for the theft of a pair of old boots." "Alan Quartermain", H. Rider Haggard