“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.”

“In religion as in politics it so happens that we have less charity for those who believe half our creed than for diose who deny the whole of it.”

“Power is not revealed by striking hard or often, but by striking true.”

“As time and space are bent by gravity, so too is truth bent by power.”

“What a curious power words have.”