There is a soul of truth in error; there is a soul of good in evil.

Chloroform unfit children. Show them the same mercy that is shown beasts that are no longer fit to live.

I feel as I always have, that the earth is the home and the only home of man, and I am convinced that whatever he is to get out of his existence he must get while he is here.

Everybody is a potential murderer. I've never killed anyone, but I frequently get satisfaction reading the obituary notices.

An idea is a greater monument than a cathedral.

The audience that storms the box-office of the theater to gain entrance to a sensational show is small and sleepy compared with the throng that crashes the courthouse door when something concerning real life and death is to be laid bare to the public.

I am not afraid of any god in the universe who would send me or any other man or woman to hell. If there were such a being, he would not be a god; he would be a devil.