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.

Every thought of pity is like the balm of Gilead to our souls.

Laws should be like clothes. They should be made to fit the people they are meant to serve.

People in this world are not often logical.

I have always felt that doubt was the beginning of wisdom, and the fear of God was the end of wisdom.

It is bigotry for public schools to teach only one theory of origins.

Can any rational person believe that the Bible is anything but a human document?