The origin of the absurd idea of immortal life is easy to discover; it is kept alive by hope and fear, by childish faith, and by cowardice.
The best that we can do is to be kindly and helpful toward our friends and fellow passengers who are clinging to the same speck of dirt while we are drifting side by side to our common doom.
Someday I hope to write a book where the royalties will pay for the copies I give away.
Justice has nothing to do with what goes on in a courtroom; Justice is what comes out of a courtroom.
Depressions may bring people closer to the church but so do funerals.
To think is to differ.
The law does not pretend to punish everything that is dishonest. That would seriously interfere with business.
The world is made up for the most part of morons and natural tyrants, sure of themselves, strong in their own opinions, never doubting anything.
I do not believe in God because I do not believe in Mother Goose.
I have never killed a man, but I have read many obituaries with great pleasure.
Calvin Coolidge was the greatest man who ever came out of Plymouth Corner, Vermont.
History repeats itself, and that's one of the things that's wrong with history.
The only real lawyers are trial lawyers, and trial lawyers try cases to juries.
You can only protect your liberties in this world by protecting the other man's freedom.
I never wanted to see anybody die, but there are a few obituary notices I have read with pleasure.
No other offense has ever been visited with such severe penalties as seeking to help the oppressed.
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.
The first half of our lives are ruined by our parents and the second half by our children.
I don't like spinach, and I'm glad I don't, because if I liked it I'd eat it, and I just hate it.
I am a friend of the working man, and I would rather be his friend, than be one.
