“To believe yourself brave is to be brave; it is the one only essential thing.”

“In the beginning of a change the patriot is a scarce man, and brave, and hated and scorned. When his cause succeeds, the timid join him, for then it costs nothing to be a patriot.”

“Eloquence is the essential thing in a speech, not information.”

“One of the proofs of the immortality of the soul is that myriads have believed it. They also believed the world was flat.”

“The idea of you lynching anybody! It's amusing. The idea of you thinking you had pluck enough to lynch a man! Because you're brave enough to tar and feather poor friendless cast-out women that come along here, did that make you think you had grit enough to lay your hands on a man? Why, a man's safe in the hands of ten thousand of your kind - as long as it's day-time and you're not behind him.”

“Each man's preference is the only standard for him, the only one which he can accept, the only one which can command him.”

“Of all the animals, man is the only one that is cruel. He is the only one that inflicts pain for the pleasure of doing it.”