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.

A prison is confining to the body, but whether it affects the mind, depends entirely upon the mind.

If today you can take a thing like evolution and make it a crime to teach it in the public school, tomorrow you can make it a crime to teach it in the private schools, and the next year you can make it a crime to teach it to the hustings or in the church. At the next session you may ban books and newspapers. Soon you may set Catholic against Protestant and Protestant against Protestant, and try to foist your own religion upon the minds of men.

All men have an emotion to kill; when they strongly dislike someone they involuntarily wish he was dead. I have never killed any one, but I have read some obituary notices with great satisfaction.

The difference between the child and the man lies chiefly in the unlimited confidence and buoyancy of youth.

The truth is that brains have little to do with either the making or accumulating of money.

We are turning our prisons into living tombs, inhabited by doomed men living in everlasting blank despair.