I have suffered from being misunderstood, but I would have suffered a hell of a lot more if I had been understood.

For to know all is to understand all, and this leaves no room for judgment and condemnation.

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

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

There is a soul of truth in error; there is a soul of good in evil.

Inside every lawyer is the wreck of a poet.

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