All men have an emotion to kill; when they strongly dislike someone they involuntarily wish he was dead. I have never killed any one, but I have read some obituary notices with great satisfaction.

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

Religious doctrines do not and clearly cannot be adopted as the criminal code of a state.

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.

Justice has nothing to do with what goes on in a courtroom; Justice is what comes out of a courtroom

Liberty is the most jealous and exacting mistress that can beguile the brain and soul of man. She will have nothing from him who will not give her all. She knows that his pretended love serves but to betray. But when once the fierce heat of her quenchless, lustrous eyes have burned into the victim's heart, he will know no other smile but hers.

Laws should be like clothes. They should be made to fit the people they are meant to serve.