Human action is governed largely by instinct and emotion.

An agnostic is a doubter. The word is generally applied to those who doubt the verity of accepted religious creeds of faiths.

I am pleading for the future; I am pleading for a time when hatred and cruelty will not control the hearts of men. When we can learn by, reason and judgment and understanding and faith that all life is worth saving, and that mercy is the highest attribute of man.

Education was in danger from the source that always hampered it—religious fanaticism.

Criminal cases receive the attention of the press. The cruel and disagreeable things of life are more apt to get the newspaper space than the pleasant ones. It must be that most people enjoy hearing of and reading about the troubles of others. Perhaps men unconsciously feel that they rise in the general level as others go down.

Instead of yielding to idle conversation it might profit one to cultivate silence and contemplation.

The difference between the child and the man lies chiefly in the unlimited confidence and buoyancy of youth.