“There are many definite methods, honest and dishonest, which make people rich; the only ''instinct'' I know of which does it is that instinct which theological Christianity crudely describes as ''the sin of avarice"”

“The punishment of a criminal is an example to the rabble; but every decent man is concerned if an innocent person is condemned”

“One threatens the innocent who spares the guilty”

“Cruelty is, perhaps, the worst kind of sin. Intellectual cruelty is certainly the worst kind of cruelty”

“We are sinful not only because we have eaten of the Tree of Knowledge, but also because we have not yet eaten of the Tree of Life. The state in which we are is sinful, irrespective of guilt.”

“The self-assured believer is a greater sinner in the eyes of God than the troubled disbeliever”