Freedom comes from human beings, rather than from laws and institutions.

The truth is, no man is white and no man is black. We are all freckled.

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.

Wars always bring about a conservative reaction. They overwhelm and destroy patient and careful efforts to improve the condition of man.

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

Everyone is the heir to all that has gone before; his structure and emotional life is fixed, and no two children of nature have the same heredity. I believe everyone should and must live out what is in him. So no two lives can be the same.

Nothing is so loved by tyrants as obedient subjects.