I am losing enough sleep to supply a worn-out army.

There are some few people I respect and admire, but I don't think much of the species.

A person with a new idea is a crank until the idea succeeds.

A religion that comes of thought, and study, and deliberate conviction, sticks best. The revivalized convert who is scared in the direction of heaven because he sees hell yawn suddenly behind him, not only regains confidence when his scare is over, but is ashamed of himself for being scared, and often becomes more hopelessly and malignantly wicked than he was before.

Whose property is my body? Probably mine. I so regard it. If I experiment with it, who must be answerable? I, not the State. If I choose injudiciously, does the state die? Oh, no.

Half of the results of a good intentions are evil; half the results of an evil intention are good.

If you pick up a starving dog and make him prosperous he will not bite you. This is the principal difference between a dog and man.