No nation can be really great that is held together by Gatling guns, and no true loyalty can be induced and kept through fear.

No iconoclast can possibly escape the severest criticism.

I am sure of very little, and I shouldn't be surprised if those things were wrong.

The audience that storms the box-office of the theater to gain entrance to a sensational show is small and sleepy compared with the throng that crashes the courthouse door when something concerning real life and death is to be laid bare to the public.

Everybody is a potential murderer. I've never killed anyone, but I frequently get satisfaction reading the obituary notices.

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

I am always suspicious of righteous indignation. Nothing is more cruel than righteous indignation.