An agnostic is a doubter. The word is generally applied to those who doubt the verity of accepted religious creeds of faiths.

I am an agnostic as to the question of God.

The difference between the child and the man lies chiefly in the unlimited confidence and buoyancy of youth.

The Constitution is a delusion and a snare if the weakest and humblest man in the land cannot be defended in his right to speak and his right to think as much as the strongest in the land.

Criminal cases receive the attention of the press. The cruel and disagreeable things of life are more apt to get the newspaper space than the pleasant ones. It must be that most people enjoy hearing of and reading about the troubles of others. Perhaps men unconsciously feel that they rise in the general level as others go down.

The truth is that brains have little to do with either the making or accumulating of money.

The fear of God is not the beginning of wisdom. The fear of God is the death of wisdom. Skepticism and doubt lead to study and investigation, and investigation is the beginning of wisdom.