As to your kind wishes for myself, allow me to say I can not enter the ring on the money basis--first, because, in the main, it iswrong; and secondly, I have not, and can not get, the money. I say, in the main, the use of money is wrong; but for certain objects, in a political contest, the use of some, is both right, and indispensable.

The dogmas of the quiet past are inadequate to the stormy present.

I do the very best I can, I mean to keep going. If the end brings me out all right, then what is said against me won't matter. If I'm wrong, ten angels swearing I was right won't make a difference.

If any should be slaves, it should be first those who desire it for themselves, and secondly, those who desire it for others

A tendancy to melancholy...let it be observed, is a misfortune, not a fault.

It's not me who can't keep a secret. It's the people I tell that can't.

Anxiety beclouds the future.