"Whichever way man may look upon the earth, he is oppressed with the suffering incident to life. It would almost seem …"

"Liberty is the most jealous and exacting mistress that can beguile the brain and soul of man. She will have nothing f…"

"All men do the best they can. But none meet life honestly and few heroically."

"It is often said that the accused should be given an immediate trial; that this and subsequent proceedings should not…"

"I do not consider it an insult, but rather a compliment to be called an agnostic. I do not pretend to know where many…"

"If today you can take a thing like evolution and make it a crime to teach it in the public school, tomorrow you can m…"

"Man does not live by truth, but by the illusions that his brain conceives."

"The purpose of life is living. Men and women should get the most they can out of their lives. The smallest, tiniest i…"

"I don't believe in God because I don't believe in Mother Goose."

"In the great flood of human life that is spawned upon the earth, it is not often that a man is born."