Chance is a word void of sense; nothing can exist without a cause.

I was never ruined but twice: once when I lost a lawsuit, and once when I won one.

What is tolerance? It is the consequence of humanity. We are all formed of frailty and error; let us pardon reciprocally each other's folly - that is the first law of nature.

The only way to compel men to speak good of us is to do it.

We have a natural right to make use of our pens as of our tongue, at our peril, risk and hazard.

I am a little deaf, a little blind, a little important and on top of this are two or three abominable infirmities, but nothing destroys my hope.

Ideas are like beards; men do not have them until they grow up.