...finally men were saved only through God's son dying for them, and that unless human beings believed this silly, impossible and wicked story they were doomed to hell? Can anyone with intelligence really believe that a child born today should be doomed because the snake tempted Eve and Eve tempted Adam? To believe that is not God-worship; it is devil-worship.

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

Autobiography is never entirely true. No one can get the right perspective on himself. Every fact is colored by imagination and dream.

Sympathy is the child of imagination

Criminal cases receive the attention of the press. The cruel and disagreeable things of life are more apt to get the newspaper space than the pleasant ones. It must be that most people enjoy hearing of and reading about the troubles of others. Perhaps men unconsciously feel that they rise in the general level as others go down.

Justice must take account of infinite circumstances which a human being cannot understand.

Nothing is so loved by tyrants as obedient subjects.