In the great flood of human life that is spawned upon the earth, it is not often that a man is born.

When every event was a miracle, when there was no order or system or law, there was no occasion for studying any subject, or being interested in anything excepting a religion which took care of the soul. As man doubted the primitive conceptions about religion, and no longer accepted the literal, miraculous teachings of ancient books, he set himself to understand nature.

I never wanted to see anybody die, but there are a few obituary notices I have read with pleasure.

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.

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.