Scopes isn’t on trial; civilization is on trial.

The Constitution is a delusion and a snare if the weakest and humblest man in the land cannot be defended in his right to speak and his right to think as much as the strongest in the land.

Instead of yielding to idle conversation it might profit one to cultivate silence and contemplation.

I never wanted to see anybody die, but there are a few obituary notices I have read with pleasure.

In spite of all the yearnings of men, no one can produce a single fact or reason to support the belief in God and in personal immortality.

Every instinct that is found in any man is in all men. The strength of the emotion may not be so overpowering, the barriers against possession not so insurmountable, the urge to accomplish the desire less keen. With some, inhibitions and urges may be neutralized by other tendencies. But with every being the primal emotions are there. All men have an emotion to kill; when they strongly dislike some one they involuntarily wish he was dead. I have never killed any one, but I have read some obituary notices with great satisfaction.

Different strokes for different folks.