We are born and we die; and between these two most important events in our lives more or less time elapses which we have to waste somehow or other. In the end it does not seem to matter much whether we have done so in making money, or practicing law, or reading or playing, or in any other way, as long as we felt we were deriving a maximum of happiness out of our doings.

As long as the world shall last there will be wrongs, and if no man objected and no man rebelled, those wrongs would last forever.

Men have always been obliged to fight to preserve liberty. Constitutions and laws do not safeguard liberty. It can be preserved only by a tolerant people, and this means eternal conflict.

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

Sympathy is the child of imagination

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.

It is bigotry for public schools to teach only one theory of origins.