I have always felt that doubt was the beginning of wisdom, and the fear of God was the end of wisdom.

If there is to be any permanent improvement in man and any better social order, it must come mainly from the education and humanizing of man.

The law is a horrible business.

Inside every lawyer is the wreck of a poet.

When every event was a miracle, when there was no order or system or law, there was no occasion for studying any subject, or being interested in anything excepting a religion which took care of the soul. As man doubted the primitive conceptions about religion, and no longer accepted the literal, miraculous teachings of ancient books, he set himself to understand nature.

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.

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