punish quotes

Why should he, with wealth and honour blest, Refuse his age the needful hours of rest? Punish a body which he could not please; Bankrupt of life, yet prodigal of ease? And all to leave what with his toil he won To that unfeathered two-legged thing, a son.

-John Dryden
Absalom and  Achitophel, pt.1, l.165^70.

He would punish everyone who deserved it: why, he wouldn't have minded being punished himself if he deserved it; but, then, he never did deserve it. 303

- George pseudonym of  MaryAnn Evans Eliot
  Of  Tom Tulliver. The Mill on the Floss, bk.1. ch.5.

Distrust all in whom the impulse to punish is powerful.

- FriedrichWilhelm Nietzsche
^92  Also sprach Zarathustra ( Thus Spake Zarathustra) (translated by R  J Hollingdale).