Each child should be more intelligent than his parents.

Laws have come down to us from old customs and folk-ways based on primitive ideas of man's origin, capacity and responsibility.

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

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

In order to have enough freedom, it is necessary to have too much.

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.

An idea is a greater monument than a cathedral.