Reason and justice tell me there's more love for humanity in electricity and steam than in chastity and vegetarianism.

Don't tell me the moon is shining; show me the glint of light on broken glass.

The personal life of every individual is based on secrecy, and perhaps it is partly for that reason that civilized man is so nervously anxious that personal privacy should be respected

It is not what a lawyer tells me I may do; but what humanity, reason, and justice tell me I ought to do.

No matter how corrupt and unjust a convict may be, he loves fairness more than anything else. If the people placed over him are unfair, from year to year he lapses into an embittered state characterized by an extreme lack of faith.

The more refined one is, the more unhappy.