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.

I do not believe in god because I do not believe in Mother Goose.

Any one who thinks is an agnostic about something, otherwise he must believe that he is possessed of all knowledge. And the proper place for such a person is in the madhouse or the home for the feeble-minded.

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

Instead of yielding to idle conversation it might profit one to cultivate silence and contemplation.

It is bigotry for public schools to teach only one theory of origins.

I am a friend of the working man, and I would rather be his friend, than be one.