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

As long as the world shall last there will be wrongs, and if no man objected and no man rebelled, those wrongs would last forever.

We are born and we die; and between these two most important events in our lives more or less time elapses which we have to waste somehow or other. In the end it does not seem to matter much whether we have done so in making money, or practicing law, or reading or playing, or in any other way, as long as we felt we were deriving a maximum of happiness out of our doings.

Punishment as punishment is not admissible unless the offender has had the freewill to select his course.

The fact that there is a general belief in a future life is no evidence of its truth

Any one who thinks is an agnostic about something, otherwise he must believe that he is possessed of all knowledge. And the proper place for such a person is in the madhouse or the home for the feeble-minded.

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