“Constant success shows us but one side of the world adversity brings out the reverse of the picture.”

“Applause is the spur of noble minds the end and aim of weak ones.”

“If you would know and not be known live in a city.”

“If a cause be good the most violent attack of its enemies will not injure it so much as an injudicious defense of it by its friends.”

“Despotism can no more exist in a nation until the liberty of the press be destroyed than the night can happen before the sun is set.”

“Imitation is the sincerest (form) of flattery.”

“I have no desire for others to take it on themselves to analyze my thoughts. I am without thoughts. I have never, not even once, acted on the basis of any doctrine or philosophy.I am convinced that...”

“This is my doctrine: Give every other human being every right you claim for yourself.”

“Without the voice of reason, every faith is its own curse.")”