There is a way of meeting error while on the road of truth.

The most terrible of motives and the most unanswerable of responses: Because.

Genuflection before the idol or the dollar destroys the muscles which walk and the will that moves.

There are many tongues to talk, and but few heads to think.

What is history? An echo of the past in the future; a reflex from the future on the past.

There are plenty who regard a wall behind which something is happening as a very curious thing.

The merciful precepts of Christ will at last suffuse the Code and it will glow with their radiance. Crime will be considered an illness with its own doctors to replace your judges and its hospitals to replace your prisons. Liberty shall be equated with health. Ointments and oil shall be applied to limbs that were once shackled and branded. Infirmities that once were scourged with anger shall now be bathed with love. The cross in place of the gallows: sublime and yet so simple.