"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."

"The past always looks better than it was; it's only pleasant because it isn't here."

"When a man marries, he has fulfilled half of (his) faith. So let him remain conscious of God regarding the remaining half"

"When in doubt, use brute force"

"It becomes a bore doing imaginative books that do not touch imaginations, and at length one stops even planning them."

"The actions of men are the best interpreters of their thoughts."

"O, beware, my lord, of jealousy! It is the green-eyed monster which doth mock the meat it feeds on."