Everything serious that he says is a joke and everything humorous that he says is dead serious.

The really intelligent are as abnormal as the defective. The great masses of men are rather mediocre, and those above and below are exceptions.

Punishment as punishment is not admissible unless the offender has had the freewill to select his course.

Religious doctrines do not and clearly cannot be adopted as the criminal code of a state.

If a man really has charge of his destiny at all, he should have something to say about getting born; and I only came through by a hair's-breadth. What had I to do with this momentous first step? In the language of the lawyer, I was not even a party of the second part.

One cannot live through a long stretch of years without forming some philosophy of life.

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.