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

The audience that storms the box-office of the theater to gain entrance to a sensational show is small and sleepy compared with the throng that crashes the courthouse door when something concerning real life and death is to be laid bare to the public.

Chloroform unfit children. Show them the same mercy that is shown beasts that are no longer fit to live.

When we fully understand the brevity of life, its fleeting joys and unavoidable pains; when we accept the facts that all men and women are approaching an inevitable doom: the consciousness of it should make us more kindly and considerate of each other. This feeling should make men and women use their best efforts to help their fellow travelers on the road, to make the path brighter and easier as we journey on. It should bring a closer kinship, a better understanding, and a deeper sympathy for the wayfarers who must live a common life and die a common death.

I am sure of very little, and I shouldn't be surprised if those things were wrong.

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

The really intelligent are as abnormal as the defective. The great masses of men are rather mediocre, and those above and below are exceptions.