In life one cannot eat his cake and have it, too; he must make his choice and then do the best he can to be content to go the way his judgment leads.

Can any rational person believe that the Bible is anything but a human document?

Everyone is the heir to all that has gone before; his structure and emotional life is fixed, and no two children of nature have the same heredity. I believe everyone should and must live out what is in him. So no two lives can be the same.

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.

Education was in danger from the source that always hampered it—religious fanaticism.

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

I go to a better tailor than any of you and pay more for my clothes. The only difference is that you probably don't sleep in yours.