Any one who thinks is an agnostic about something, otherwise he must believe that he is possessed of all knowledge. And the proper place for such a person is in the madhouse or the home for the feeble-minded.

Each child should be more intelligent than his parents.

The fear of God is not the beginning of wisdom. The fear of God is the death of wisdom. Skepticism and doubt lead to study and investigation, and investigation is the beginning of wisdom.

It may never come, but I fancy than no man who has sympathy for the human race does not wish that sometime those who labor should have the whole product of their toil. Probably it will never come, but I wish that the time might come when men who work in the industries would own the industries.

Nothing is so loved by tyrants as obedient subjects.

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

Life is a never-ending school, and the really important lessons all tend to teach man his proper relation to the environment where he must live.