Think what cowards men would be if they had to bear children. Women are altogether a superior species.

Life is a flame that is always burning itself out; but it catches fire again every time a child is born. Life is greater than death, and hope than despair.

When an apparent miracle happened.it proved divine mission to the credulous, and proved a contract with the devil to the skeptical.

You have a choice of trusting the natural stability of gold, or the honesty and intelligence of members of government.

Rich men without convictions are more dangerous in modern society than poor women without chastity.

Murder and capital punishment are not opposites that cancel one another, but similars that breed their kind. It is the deed that teaches not the name we give it.

We all have--to put it as nicely as I can--our lower centres and our higher centres. Our lower centres act: they act with terriblepower that sometimes destroys us; but they don't talk.... Since the war the lower centres have become vocal. And the effect is that of an earthquake. For they speak truths that have never been spoken before--truths that the makers of our domestic institutions have tried to ignore.