I don't want to hurt people's feelings if I can help it. I don't want anyone unnecessarily humiliated, but I say whatever stands between you and justice must give way; and if you have to walk over reputations — and if they become pavement you cannot help it.

I have not the slightest confidence in 'spiritual manifestations.'

Liberty cannot be sacrificed for the sake of anything.

Labor is the only prayer that Nature answers: It is the only prayer that deserves an answer—good, honest, noble work.

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 we are immortal, it is a fact of nature, and that fact does not depend on bibles, on Christs, priest, or creeds.

You see, after all, few rich men own their property. The property owns them.