“There is nothing more stimulating than a case where everything goes against you.”

“Few artists thrive in solitude and nothing is more stimulating than the conflict of minds with similar interests.”

“Anger is the most impotent of passions. It effects nothing it goes about, and hurts the one who is possessed by it more than the one against whom it is directed.”

“In this age, in this country, public sentiment is everything. With it, nothing can fail; against it, nothing can succeed. Whoever molds public sentiment goes deeper than he who enacts statutes, or pronounces judicial decisions.”

“On the occasions where we do have to participate, to do more than nothing, it is desirable to have a glass of wine to soften all the everything.”

“If you want to keep people subjugated, the last thing you place in their hands is a Bible. There's nothing more radical, nothing more revolutionary, nothing more subversive against injustice and oppression than the Bible.”