Working people have a lot of bad habits, but the worst of these is work.

I do not consider it an insult, but rather a compliment to be called an agnostic. I do not pretend to know where many ignorant men are sure — that is all that agnosticism means.

An agnostic is a doubter. The word is generally applied to those who doubt the verity of accepted religious creeds of faiths.

The first half of our lives are ruined by our parents and the second half by our children.

So long as the ordinary ideal of punishment prevails, a crime must consist of an act coupled with an intent to do the thing.

We should always bear in mind that crime can never mean anything except the violation of law.

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

When the violator is convicted. It has no necessary reference to the general moral condition of man.

An increase of crime, as show by statistics, may mean that the records are kept more completely than in former times.

Some of you say that religion makes people happy, so does whisky.