A living thing is distinguished from a dead thing by the multiplicity of the changes at any moment taking place in it.
The more specific idea of Evolution now reached is -- a change from an indefinite, incoherent homogeneity to a definite, coherent heterogeneity, accompanying the dissipation of motion and integration of matter.
The ultimate result of shielding men from the effects of folly, is to fill the world with fools.
Objects we ardently pursue bring little happiness when gained; most of our pleasures come from unexpected sources.
The preservation of health is a duty. Few seem conscious that there is such a thing as physical morality.
There is one principle that can keep a man in everlasting ignorance. That is contempt prior to investigation.
A jury is composed of twelve men of average ignorance.
Divine right of kings means the divine right of anyone who can get uppermost.
A jury consists of twelve persons chosen to decide who has the better lawyer.
Life is the continuous adjustment of internal relations to external relations.
Love is life's end, but never ending. Love is life's wealth, never spent, but ever spending. Love's life's reward, rewarded in rewarding.
Marriage: A ceremony in which rings are put on the finger of the lady and through the nose of the gentleman.
The Republican form of government is the highest form of government; but because of this it requires the highest type of human nature -- a type nowhere at present existing.
Be bold, be bold, and everywhere be bold.
Science is organized knowledge.
Time is that which a man is always trying to kill, but which ends in killing him.
How often misused words generate misleading thoughts.