The purpose of man is like the purpose of a pollywog - to wiggle along as far as he can without dying; or, to hang to life until death takes him.

Some false representations contravene the law; some do not. ... The sensibilities of no two men are the same. Some would refuse to sell property without carefully explaining all about its merits and defects, and putting themselves in the purchasers' place and inquiring if he himself would buy under the circumstances. But such men never would be prosperous merchants.

The best way to understand somebody else is to put yourself in his place.

Religious doctrines do not and clearly cannot be adopted as the criminal code of a state.

Laws should be like clothes. They should be made to fit the people they are meant to serve.

As long as the world shall last there will be wrongs, and if no man objected and no man rebelled, those wrongs would last forever.

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.