"I am in earnest; I will not equivocate; I will not excuse; I will not retreat a single inch; and I will be heard."

"With reasonable men I will reason; with humane men I will plea; but to tyrants I will give no quarter, nor waste arguments where they will certainly be lost."

"GOOD, adj. Sensible, madam, to the worth of this present writer. Alive, sir, to the advantages of letting him alone."

"Being defeated is often a temporary condition. Giving up is what makes it permanent."

"War is cruelty. There's no use trying to reform it, the crueler it is the sooner it will be over."

"I love freedom for what I can do with it, I hate freedom for what I have done with it."

"When you encounter difficulties and contradictions, do not try to break them, but bend them with gentleness and time."

"But I can't help detesting my relations. I suppose it comes from the fact that none of us can stand other people having the same faults as ourselves."