Nothing is so loved by tyrants as obedient subjects.

Everybody is a potential murderer. I've never killed anyone, but I frequently get satisfaction reading the obituary notices.

With all their faults, trade unions have done more for humanity than any other organization of men that ever existed. They have done more for decency, for honesty, for education, for the betterment of the race, for the developing of character in men, than any other association of men.

Every one knows that the heavenly bodies move in certain paths in relation to each other with seeming consistency and regularity which we call [physical] law. ... No one attributes freewill or motive to the material world. Is the conduct of man or the other animals any more subject to whim or choice than the action of the planets? ... We know that man's every act is induced by motives that led or urged him here or there; that the sequence of cause and effect runs through the whole universe, and is nowhere more compelling than with man.

In life one cannot eat his cake and have it, too; he must make his choice and then do the best he can to be content to go the way his judgment leads.

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

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