I would like above any other place to go to Hartford. I want to face the conservatism there centered and compel it into decency.

To go behind a man's hall-door is mean, cowardly, unfair opposition.

A reform in the system of criminal jurisprudence, by which the death penalty shall no longer be inflicted . . . and by which our so-called prisons shall be virtually transformed into vast reformatory workshops, from which the unfortunate may emerge to be useful members of society, instead of the alienated citizens they now are.

I supposed that to marry was to be transported to a heaven not only of happiness but of purity and perfection.

I know that my companions from the moment of birth were heaven's choicest souls. I grew side by side with them, in fact all the education and inspiration came over them.

All that is good and commendable now existing would continue to exist if all marriage laws were repealed tomorrow . . .

My judges preach against free love openly, practice it secretly.