Every instinct that is found in any man is in all men. The strength of the emotion may not be so overpowering, the barriers against possession not so insurmountable, the urge to accomplish the desire less keen. With some, inhibitions and urges may be neutralized by other tendencies. But with every being the primal emotions are there. All men have an emotion to kill; when they strongly dislike some one they involuntarily wish he was dead. I have never killed any one, but I have read some obituary notices with great satisfaction.

Men have always been obliged to fight to preserve liberty. Constitutions and laws do not safeguard liberty. It can be preserved only by a tolerant people, and this means eternal conflict.

Justice must take account of infinite circumstances which a human being cannot understand.

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

I cannot tell and I shall never know how many words of mine might have given birth to cruelty in place of love and kindness and charity.

Chase after the truth like all hell and you'll free yourself, even though you never touch its coat tails.

The most human thing we can do is comfort the afflicted and afflict the comfortable.