As long as the world shall last there will be wrongs, and if no man objected and no man rebelled, those wrongs would last forever.

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

No man is a good citizen, a good neighbor, a good friend, or a good man just because he obeys the law. The intrinsic worth is determined mainly by the intrinsic make-up.

I had a vivid imagination. Not only could I put myself in the other person's place, but I could not avoid doing so. My sympathies always went out to the weak, the suffering, and the poor. Realizing their sorrows I tried to relieve them in order that I myself might be relieved.

Great wealth often curses all who touch it.

The fact that there is a general belief in a future life is no evidence of its truth

It’s not bad people I fear so much as good people. When a person is sure that he is good, he is nearly hopeless; he gets cruel- he believes in punishment.