With all their faults, trade-unions have done more for humanity than any other organization of men that ever existed.

...finally men were saved only through God's son dying for them, and that unless human beings believed this silly, impossible and wicked story they were doomed to hell? Can anyone with intelligence really believe that a child born today should be doomed because the snake tempted Eve and Eve tempted Adam? To believe that is not God-worship; it is devil-worship.

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.

Chase after the truth like all hell and you'll free yourself, even though you never touch its coat tails.

There are two things that kill a genius - a fatal disease and contentment.

One believes in the truthfulness of a man because of his long experience with the man, and because the man has always told a consistent story. But no man has told so consistent a story as nature.

I had grown tired of standing in the lean and lonely front line facing the greatest enemy that ever confronted man -- public opinion.