Great wealth often curses all who touch it.

I cannot tell and I shall never know how many words of mine might have given birth to cruelty in place of love and kindness and charity.

Never forget, almost every case has been won or lost when the jury is sworn.

Nothing is so loved by tyrants as obedient subjects.

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

Do you, good people, believe that Adam and Eve were created in the Garden of Eden and that they were forbidden to eat from the tree of knowledge? I do. The church has always been afraid of that tree. It still is afraid of knowledge. Some of you say religion makes people happy. So does laughing gas. So does whiskey. I believe in the brain of man.

Physical deformity, calls forth our charity. But the infinite misfortune of moral deformity calls forth nothing but hatred and vengeance.