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

The objector and the rebel who raises his voice against what he believes to be the injustice of the present and the wrongs of the past is the one who hunches the world along.

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

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.

Physical deformity, calls forth our charity. But the infinite misfortune of moral deformity calls forth nothing but hatred and vengeance.

If there is to be any permanent improvement in man and any better social order, it must come mainly from the education and humanizing of man.

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