One believes in the truthfulness of a man because of his long experience with the man, and because the man has always told a consistent story. But no man has told so consistent a story as nature.
No iconoclast can possibly escape the severest criticism.
Every government on earth is the personification of violence and force, and yet the doctine of non-resistance is as old as human thought – even more than this, the instinct is as old as life upon the earth.
Can any rational person believe that the Bible is anything but a human document?
Any one who thinks is an agnostic about something, otherwise he must believe that he is possessed of all knowledge. And the proper place for such a person is in the madhouse or the home for the feeble-minded.
In life one cannot eat his cake and have it, too; he must make his choice and then do the best he can to be content to go the way his judgment leads.
Hoover, if elected, will do one thing that is almost incomprehensible to the human mind: he will make a great man out of Coolidge.
People in this world are not often logical.
The truth is always modern and there never comes a time when it is safe to give it voice.
There are two things that kill a genius: a fatal disease and contentment.
A prison is confining to the body, but whether it affects the mind, depends entirely upon the mind.
Anyone can spot a lie, unless he is in need of that lie.
Everything serious that he says is a joke and everything humorous that he says is dead serious.
A jury is more apt to be unbiased and independent than a court, but they very seldom stand up against strong public clamor. Judges naturally believe the defendant is guilty.
A criminal is someone without the capital to incorporate.
I cannot tell and I shall never know how many words of mine might have given birth to cruelty in place of love and kindness and charity.
Cheating, having ‘hoes,’ none of that is cute. To be honest, it’s really immature. I don’t see how people take pride in breaking someone’s heart. The law does not pretend to punish everything that is dishonest. That would seriously interfere with business.
Wars always bring about a conservative reaction. They overwhelm and destroy patient and careful efforts to improve the condition of man.
Instead of yielding to idle conversation it might profit one to cultivate silence and contemplation.
The audience that storms the box-office of the theater to gain entrance to a sensational show is small and sleepy compared with the throng that crashes the courthouse door when something concerning real life and death is to be laid bare to the public.