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

Liberty is the most jealous and exacting mistress that can beguile the brain and soul of man.

We are turning our prisons into living tombs, inhabited by doomed men living in everlasting blank despair.

Each child should be more intelligent than his parents.

Any one who thinks is an agnostic about something, otherwise he must believe that he is possessed of all knowledge. And the proper place for such a person is in the madhouse or the home for the feeble-minded.

There are a lot of myths which make the human race cruel and barbarous and unkind. Good and Evil, Sin and Crime, Free Will and the like delusions made to excuse God for damning men and to excuse men for crucifying each other.

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.