An idea is a greater monument than a cathedral.

It is just as often a great misfortune to be the child of the rich as it is to be the child of the poor. Wealth has its misfortunes. Too much, too great opportunity and advantage given to a child has its misfortunes.

In the great flood of human life that is spawned upon the earth, it is not often that a man is born.

We're all killers at heart . . . . I have never taken anybody's life, but I have often read obituary notices with considerable satisfaction.

The truth is always modern and there never comes a time when it is safe to give it voice.

A criminal is someone without the capital to incorporate

Life is a never-ending school, and the really important lessons all tend to teach man his proper relation to the environment where he must live.