Gratitude is a debt which usually goes on accumulating like blackmail; the more you pay, the more is exacted.

Trial by jury is the palladium of our liberties. I do not know what a palladium is, but I am sure it is a good thing!

It is not best to use our morals weekdays, it gets them out of repair for Sunday.

A marriage...makes of two fractional lives a whole; it gives to two purposeless lives a work, and doubles the strength of each to perform it; it gives to two questioning natures a reason for living, and something to live for; it will give a new gladness to the sunshine, a new fragrance to the flowers, a new beauty to the earth, and a new mystery to life.

He does not care for flowers. Calls them rubbish, and cannot tell one from another, and thinks it is superior to feel like that.

It ain't what you don't know that gets you into trouble. It's what you know for sure that just ain't so.

Once I talked to the inmates of an insane asylum in Hartford. I have talked to idiots a thousand times, but only once to the insane.