When every event was a miracle, when there was no order or system or law, there was no occasion for studying any subject, or being interested in anything excepting a religion which took care of the soul. As man doubted the primitive conceptions about religion, and no longer accepted the literal, miraculous teachings of ancient books, he set himself to understand nature.

The truth is always modern and there never comes a time when it is safe to give it voice.

Different strokes for different folks.

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

No iconoclast can possibly escape the severest criticism.

To be an effective criminal defense counsel, an attorney must be prepared to be demanding, outrageous, irreverent, blasphemous, a rogue, a renegade, and a hated, isolated, and lonely person - few love a spokesman for the despised and the damned.

Sympathy is the child of imagination