I would rather be a beggar and spend my money like a king, than be a king and spend money like a beggar.

There is something tenderly appropriate in the serene death of the old. Nothing is more touching than the death of the young, the strong.

Shakespeare has done far more for the world than the Bible.

Millions of men give all their energies, as well as their very souls, for the acquisition of gold. And this will continue as long as society is ignorant enough and hypocritical enough to hold in high esteem the man of wealth without the slightest regard to the character of the man.

On every hand there seems to be design to defeat design. If God created man - if he is the father of us all, why did he make the criminals, the insane, the deformed and idiotic? Should the mother, who clasps to her breast an idiot child, thank God?

If God objected to [people with various handicaps], he ought not have created such people.

Age after age, the strong have trampled upon the weak; the crafty and heartless have ensnared and enslaved the simple and innocent, and nowhere, in all the annals of mankind, has any god succored the oppressed