Every one knows that the heavenly bodies move in certain paths in relation to each other with seeming consistency and regularity which we call [physical] law. ... No one attributes freewill or motive to the material world. Is the conduct of man or the other animals any more subject to whim or choice than the action of the planets? ... We know that man's every act is induced by motives that led or urged him here or there; that the sequence of cause and effect runs through the whole universe, and is nowhere more compelling than with man.

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

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.

Whenever I hear people discussing birth control, I always remember that I was fifth.

Hoover, if elected, will do one thing that is almost incomprehensible to the human mind: he will make a great man out of Coolidge.

Can any rational person believe that the Bible is anything but a human document?

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