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

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.

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.

I am pleading for the future; I am pleading for a time when hatred and cruelty will not control the hearts of men. When we can learn by, reason and judgment and understanding and faith that all life is worth saving, and that mercy is the highest attribute of man.

As long as the world shall last there will be wrongs, and if no man objected and no man rebelled, those wrongs would last forever.

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.

Do you think you can cure the hatreds and the maladjustments of the world by hanging them? You simply show your ignorance and your hate when you say it. You may here and there cure hatred with love and understanding, but you can only add fuel to the flames by cruelty and hate.