Every instinct that is found in any man is in all men. The strength of the emotion may not be so overpowering, the barriers against possession not so insurmountable, the urge to accomplish the desire less keen. With some, inhibitions and urges may be neutralized by other tendencies. But with every being the primal emotions are there. All men have an emotion to kill; when they strongly dislike some one they involuntarily wish he was dead. I have never killed any one, but I have read some obituary notices with great satisfaction.

We are turning our prisons into living tombs, inhabited by doomed men living in everlasting blank despair.

Autobiography is never entirely true. No one can get the right perspective on himself. Every fact is colored by imagination and dream.

We know life is futile. A man who considers that his life is of very wonderful importance is awfully close to a padded cell.

Everybody is a potential murderer. I've never killed anyone, but I frequently get satisfaction reading the obituary notices.

The man who fights for his fellow-man is a better man than the one who fights for himself.

Liberty is the most jealous and exacting mistress that can beguile the brain and soul of man.