"No pain, no palm; no thorns, no throne; no gall, no glory; no cross, no crown."

"A good End cannot sanctifie evil Means; nor must we ever do Evil, that Good may come of it."

"Truth often suffers more by the heat of its defenders, than from the arguments of its opposers."

"True silence is the rest of the mind; it is to the spirit what sleep is to the body, nourishment and refreshment."

"Let the people think they govern, and they will be governed."

"All excess is ill, but drunkenness is of the worst sort. It spoils health, dismounts the mind, and unmans men. It reveals secrets, is quarrelsome, lascivious, impudent, dangerous and bad."

"Never fear shadows. They simply mean there's a light shining somewhere nearby."

"Speak what you think today in hard words and tomorrow speak what tomorrow thinks in hard words again, though it contradict every thing you said today."

"Every government is a parliament of whores. The trouble is, in a democracy, the whores are us."

"A girl can't analyze marriage, and a woman dare not."

"He who does not hope to win has already lost."

"We have only this moment, sparkling like a star in our hand... and melting like a snowflake. Let us use it before it is too late."