Everyone is the heir to all that has gone before; his structure and emotional life is fixed, and no two children of nature have the same heredity. I believe everyone should and must live out what is in him. So no two lives can be the same.

Everybody is a potential murderer. I've never killed anyone, but I frequently get satisfaction reading the obituary notices.

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

There is no such crime as a crime of thought; there are only crimes of action.

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

I am not afraid of any god in the universe who would send me or any other man or woman to hell. If there were such a being, he would not be a god; he would be a devil.

The difference between the child and the man lies chiefly in the unlimited confidence and buoyancy of youth.