"I never made a mistake in my life. I thought I did once, but I was wrong."

"I have a new philosophy. I'm only going to dread one day at a time."

"Christmas is doing a little something extra for someone."

"In the Book of Life, The answers aren't in the back."

"Worth seeing? Yes; but not worth going to see."

"A Judge may be a farmer; but he is not to geld his own pigs. A Judge may play a little at cards for his own amusement; but he is not to play at marbles, or chuck farthing in the Piazza."

"Lawyers, I suppose, were children once."

"To be sick is to enjoy monarchical prerogatives."

"Asparagus inspires gentle thoughts."

"He that undervalues himself will undervalue others, and he that undervalues others will oppress them."

"A vow is a snare for sin"

"The real satisfaction which praise can afford, is when what is repeated aloud agrees with the whispers of conscience, by showing us that we have not endeavored to deserve well in vain."

"In all pointed sentences, some degree of accuracy must be sacrificed to conciseness."

"Knowledge is more than equivalent to force."

"Distance has the same effect on the mind as on the eye."

"Unusual degree. This family became divided eight generations"

"Origin of man now proved. Metaphysics must flourish. He who understand baboon would do more towards metaphysics than Locke."

"I am convinced that natural selection has been the main but not exclusive means of modification."

"When I view all beings not as special creations, but as the lineal descendants of some few beings which lived long before the first bed of the Cambrian system was deposited, they seem to me to become ennobled."

"I have always maintained that, excepting fools, men did not differ much in intellect, only in zeal and hard work; and I still think there is an eminently important difference."

"Sir, he throws away his money without thought and without merit. I do not call a tree generous that sheds its fruit at every breeze."

"Life cannot subsist in society but by reciprocal concessions."

"The usual fortune of complaint is to excite contempt more than pity."

"At seventy-seven it is time to be earnest."