I had a vivid imagination. Not only could I put myself in the other person's place, but I could not avoid doing so. My sympathies always went out to the weak, the suffering, and the poor. Realizing their sorrows I tried to relieve them in order that I myself might be relieved.

Liberty is the most jealous and exacting mistress that can beguile the brain and soul of man. She will have nothing from him who will not give her all. She knows that his pretended love serves but to betray. But when once the fierce heat of her quenchless, lustrous eyes have burned into the victim's heart, he will know no other smile but hers.

I had a vivid imagination. Not only could I put myself in the other person's place, but I could not avoid doing so. My sympathies always went out to the weak, the suffering, and the poor. Realizing their sorrows I tried to relieve them in order that I myself might be relieved.

The truth is always modern and there never comes a time when it is safe to give it voice.

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

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

Chloroform unfit children. Show them the same mercy that is shown beasts that are no longer fit to live.