It’s not bad people I fear so much as good people. When a person is sure that he is good, he is nearly hopeless; he gets cruel- he believes in punishment.

Can any rational person believe that the Bible is anything but a human document?

In order to have enough freedom, it is necessary to have too much.

One cannot live through a long stretch of years without forming some philosophy of life.

A prison is confining to the body, but whether it affects the mind, depends entirely upon the mind.

Probably the undertaker thinks less of death than almost any other man. He is so accustomed to it that his mind must involuntarily turn from its horror to a contemplation of how much he makes out of the burial.

Inside every lawyer is the wreck of a poet.