Inside every lawyer is the wreck of a poet.

Common experience shows how much rarer is moral courage than physical bravery. A thousand men will march to the mouth of the cannon where one man will dare espouse an unpopular cause . . . True courage and manhood come from the consciousness of the right attitude toward the world, the faith in one's purpose, and the sufficiency of one's own approval as a justification for one's own acts.

No nation can be really great that is held together by Gatling guns, and no true loyalty can be induced and kept through fear.

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

The truth is that brains have little to do with either the making or accumulating of money.

An agnostic is a doubter. The word is generally applied to those who doubt the verity of accepted religious creeds of faiths.

I never wanted to see anybody die, but there are a few obituary notices I have read with pleasure.