I feel as I always have, that the earth is the home and the only home of man, and I am convinced that whatever he is to get out of his existence he must get while he is here.

Eugene V. Debs has always been one of my heroes.

There are two things that kill a genius - a fatal disease and contentment.

I am always suspicious of righteous indignation. Nothing is more cruel than righteous indignation.

It must always be remembered that all laws are naturally and inevitably evolved by the strongest force in a community, and in the last analysis made for the protection of the dominant class.

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

We are born and we die; and between these two most important events in our lives more or less time elapses which we have to waste somehow or other. In the end it does not seem to matter much whether we have done so in making money, or practicing law, or reading or playing, or in any other way, as long as we felt we were deriving a maximum of happiness out of our doings.