Liberty is the most jealous and exacting mistress that can beguile the brain and soul of man. She will have nothing from him who will not give her all. She knows that his pretended love serves but to betray. But when once the fierce heat of her quenchless, lustrous eyes have burned into the victim's heart, he will know no other smile but hers.

The really intelligent are as abnormal as the defective. The great masses of men are rather mediocre, and those above and below are exceptions.

I have suffered from being misunderstood, but I would have suffered a hell of a lot more if I had been understood.

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

Life is a never-ending school, and the really important lessons all tend to teach man his proper relation to the environment where he must live.

Laws have come down to us from old customs and folk-ways based on primitive ideas of man's origin, capacity and responsibility.

Punishment as punishment is not admissible unless the offender has had the freewill to select his course.