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

Great wealth often curses all who touch it.

I am always suspicious of righteous indignation. Nothing is more cruel than righteous indignation.

I don't believe in God because I don't believe in Mother Goose.

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.

I had a vivid imagination. Not only could I put myself in the other person's place, but I could not avoid doing so. My sympathies always went out to the weak, the suffering, and the poor. Realizing their sorrows I tried to relieve them in order that I myself might be relieved.

We know life is futile. A man who considers that his life is of very wonderful importance is awfully close to a padded cell.