In politics, what begins in fear usually ends in folly.

Our own heart, and not other men's opinion, forms our true honor.

We must follow the old authorities and precedents in criminal matters.

If you are not a thinking man, to what purpose are you a man at all?.

Courage multiplies the chances of success by sometimes making opportunities, and always availing itself of them; and in this sense Fortune may be said to favor fools by those who, however prudent in their opinion, are deficient in valor and enterprise.

A savage place! As holy and enchanted/As e'er beneath the waning moon was haunted/By woman wailing for her Demon Lover!

I must reject fluids and ethers of all kinds, magnetical, electrical, and universal, to whatever quintessential thinness they may be treble distilled, and as it were super-substantiated.