When a man is known to have no settled convictions of his own he can't convict other people

Each man must for himself alone decide what is right and what is wrong, which course is patriotic and which isn't. You cannot shirk this and be a man. To decide against your conviction is to be an unqualified and excusable traitor, both to yourself and to your country, let them label you as they may.

The conviction of the rich that the poor are happier is no more foolish than the conviction of the poor that the rich are

Whatever you say, say it with conviction

Clothes make the man. Naked people have little or no influence on society.

All that I care to know is that a man is a human being--that is enough for me; he can't be any worse.