It may never come, but I fancy than no man who has sympathy for the human race does not wish that sometime those who labor should have the whole product of their toil. Probably it will never come, but I wish that the time might come when men who work in the industries would own the industries.

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.

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

The truth is that brains have little to do with either the making or accumulating of money.

The law is a horrible business.

Sympathy is the child of imagination

Some false representations contravene the law; some do not. The law does not pretend to punish everything that is dishonest. That would seriously interfere with business, and, besides, could not be done. The line between honesty and dishonesty is a narrow, shifting one and usually lets those get by that are the most subtle and already have more than they can use.