I was dead for millions of years before I was born and it never inconvenienced me a bit.

It is the will of God that we must have critics and missionaries and congressmen and humorists, and we must bear the burden

A wise man does not waste so good a commodity as lying for naught.

I hate to hear people say this Judge will vote so and so, because he is a Democrat -- and this one so and so because he is a Republican. It is shameful. The Judges have the Constitution for their guidance; they have no right to any politics save the politics of rigid right and justice when they are sitting in judgment upon the great matters that come before them.

The old Irish when immersing a babe at baptism left out the right arm so that it would remain pagan for good fighting

The waves most washed me off the raft sometimes, but I hadn't any clothes on, and didn't mind.

It were not best that we should all think alike.