Young man, the secret of my success is that an early age I discovered that I was not God.

Men are tattooed with their special beliefs like so many South Sea Islanders; but a real human heart with divine love in it beats with the same glow under all the patterns of all earth's thousand tribes.

For my part I think it is a less evil that some criminals should escape, than that the government should play an ignoble part.

Society is always trying in some way to grind us down to a single flat surface.

Life is an end in itself, and the only question as to whether it is worth living is whether you have had enough of it.

One of the eternal conflicts out of which life is made up is that between the effort of every man to get the most he can for his services, and that of society, disguised under the name of capital, to get his services for the least possible return.

Old age is like an opium dream. Nothing seems real except the unreal.