The man who fights for his fellow-man is a better man than the one who fights for himself.

A prison is confining to the body, but whether it affects the mind, depends entirely upon the mind.

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.

Religious doctrines do not and clearly cannot be adopted as the criminal code of a state.

I never wanted to see anybody die, but there are a few obituary notices I have read with pleasure.

My constitution was destroyed long ago; now I am living under the bylaws.

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