An idea is a greater monument than a cathedral.

Sympathy is the child of imagination

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.

Any one who thinks is an agnostic about something, otherwise he must believe that he is possessed of all knowledge. And the proper place for such a person is in the madhouse or the home for the feeble-minded.

A criminal is someone without the capital to incorporate

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

If today you can take a thing like evolution and make it a crime to teach it in the public school, tomorrow you can make it a crime to teach it in the private schools, and the next year you can make it a crime to teach it to the hustings or in the church. At the next session you may ban books and newspapers. Soon you may set Catholic against Protestant and Protestant against Protestant, and try to foist your own religion upon the minds of men.