A criminal is someone without the capital to incorporate

In spite of all the yearnings of men, no one can produce a single fact or reason to support the belief in God and in personal immortality.

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

If today you can take a thing like evolution and make it a crime to teach it in the public school, tomorrow you can make it a crime to teach it in the private schools, and the next year you can make it a crime to teach it to the hustings or in the church. At the next session you may ban books and newspapers. Soon you may set Catholic against Protestant and Protestant against Protestant, and try to foist your own religion upon the minds of men.

Sympathy is the child of imagination

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

The most human thing we can do is comfort the afflicted and afflict the comfortable.