The consideration and kindness shown by unfortunates to each other are surprising to those who have no experience with this class of men. Often to find real sympathy you must go to those who know what misery means.

In order to have enough freedom, it is necessary to have too much.

Laws should be like clothes. They should be made to fit the people they are meant to serve.

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

Autobiography is never entirely true. No one can get the right perspective on himself. Every fact is colored by imagination and dream.

No nation can be really great that is held together by Gatling guns, and no true loyalty can be induced and kept through fear.

I am an agnostic as to the question of God.