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

All men have an emotion to kill; when they strongly dislike someone they involuntarily wish he was dead. I have never killed any one, but I have read some obituary notices with great satisfaction.

It may never come, but I fancy than no man who has sympathy for the human race does not wish that sometime those who labor should have the whole product of their toil. Probably it will never come, but I wish that the time might come when men who work in the industries would own the industries.

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

There is a soul of truth in error; there is a soul of good in evil.

Every thought of pity is like the balm of Gilead to our souls.

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