I never wanted to see anybody die, but there are a few obituary notices I have read with pleasure.

The fear of God is not the beginning of wisdom. The fear of God is the death of wisdom. Skepticism and doubt lead to study and investigation, and investigation is the beginning of wisdom.

Liberty is the most jealous and exacting mistress that can beguile the brain and soul of man. She will have nothing from him who will not give her all. She knows that his pretended love serves but to betray. But when once the fierce heat of her quenchless, lustrous eyes have burned into the victim's heart, he will know no other smile but hers.

My constitution was destroyed long ago; now I am living under the bylaws.

If there is to be any permanent improvement in man and any better social order, it must come mainly from the education and humanizing of man.

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

The best way to understand somebody else is to put yourself in his place.