If you lose the power to laugh, you lose the power to think.

Were these boys in their right minds? Here were two boys with good intellect, one eighteen and one nineteen. They had all the prospects that life could hold out for any of the young; one...

As long as the world shall last there will be wrongs, and if no man objected and no man rebelled, those wrongs would last forever.

Sympathy is the child of imagination

To think is to differ.

Justice has nothing to do with what goes on in a courtroom; Justice is what comes out of a courtroom.

If a man is happy in America, it is considered he is doing something wrong.

Chase after the truth like all hell and you’ll free yourself, even though you never touch its coat tails.

I never wanted to see anybody die, but there are a few obituary notices I have read with pleasure.

If today you can take a thing like evolution and make it a crime to teach it in the public school, tomorrow you can make it a crime to teach it in the private schools,...

I do not believe in God because I do not believe in Mother Goose.