There are a lot of myths which make the human race cruel and barbarous and unkind. Good and Evil, Sin and Crime, Free Will and the like delusions made to excuse God for damning men and to excuse men for crucifying each other.

Common experience shows how much rarer is moral courage than physical bravery. A thousand men will march to the mouth of the cannon where one man will dare espouse an unpopular cause . . . True courage and manhood come from the consciousness of the right attitude toward the world, the faith in one's purpose, and the sufficiency of one's own approval as a justification for one's own acts.

If there is to be any permanent improvement in man and any better social order, it must come mainly from the education and humanizing of man.

Laws should be like clothes. They should be made to fit the people they are meant to serve.

There is a soul of truth in error; there is a soul of good in evil.

Every thought of pity is like the balm of Gilead to our souls.

I have always felt that doubt was the beginning of wisdom, and the fear of God was the end of wisdom.