If once you forfeit the confidence of your fellow-citizens, you can never regain their respect and esteem.

All my life I have tried to pluck a thistle and plant a flower wherever the flower would grow in thought and mind.

As to the whiskers, having never worn any, do you not think people would call it a piece of silly affectation if I were to begin it now?

Lamon, that speech won't scour. It is a flat failure and the people are disappointed.

Friendship is the start for what you call love.

I belive that people should fight for what they believe and only what they believe.

If I were to try to read, much less answer, all the attacks made on me, this shop might as well be closed for any other business. I do the very best I know how - the very best I can; and I mean to keep doing so until the end. If the end brings me out all right, what's said against me won't amount to anything. If the end brings me out wrong, ten angels swearing I was right would make no difference.