A jury is more apt to be unbiased and independent than a court, but they very seldom stand up against strong public clamor. Judges naturally believe the defendant is guilty.

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.

Do you, good people, believe that Adam and Eve were created in the Garden of Eden and that they were forbidden to eat from the tree of knowledge? I do. The church has always been afraid of that tree. It still is afraid of knowledge. Some of you say religion makes people happy. So does laughing gas. So does whiskey. I believe in the brain of man.

We know life is futile. A man who considers that his life is of very wonderful importance is awfully close to a padded cell.

I have suffered from being misunderstood, but I would have suffered a hell of a lot more if I had been understood.