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

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.

One cannot live through a long stretch of years without forming some philosophy of life.

I am always suspicious of righteous indignation. Nothing is more cruel than righteous indignation.

The best way to understand somebody else is to put yourself in his place.

In the great flood of human life that is spawned upon the earth, it is not often that a man is born.

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