Inside every lawyer is the wreck of a poet.

Human action is governed largely by instinct and emotion.

The consideration and kindness shown by unfortunates to each other are surprising to those who have no experience with this class of men. Often to find real sympathy you must go to those who know what misery means.

The efforts of the medical profession in the US to control:...its...job it proposes to monopolize. It has been carrying on a vigorous campaign all over the country against new methods and schools of healing because it wants the business...I have watched this medical profession for a long time and it bears watching.

Do I need to argue to Your Honor that cruelty only breeds cruelty? That hatred only causes hatred; that if there is any way to soften this human heart which is hard enough at its best, if there is any way to kill evil and hatred and all that goes with it, it is not through evil and hatred and cruelty; it is through charity, and love, and understanding?

In spite of all the yearnings of men, no one can produce a single fact or reason to support the belief in God and in personal immortality.

If there is to be any permanent improvement in man and any better social order, it must come mainly from the education and humanizing of man.