“I wish to say what I think and feel today, with the proviso that tomorrow perhaps I shall contradict it all.”

“Speak what you think today in hard words and tomorrow speak what tomorrow thinks in hard words again, though it contradict every thing you said today.”

“Else if you would be a man speak what you think to-day in words as hard as cannon balls, and to-morrow speak what tomorrow thinks in hard words again, though it contradict every thing you said to-day.”

“Speak your latent conviction. . . Else tomorrow a stranger will say with masterly good sense precisely what we have thought and felt all the time, and we shall be forced to take with shame our own opinion from another.”

“Tomorrow, a stranger will say with masterly good sense precisely what we have thought and felt all the time.”

“What I must do is all that concerns me, not what the people think.”

“Let me never fall into the vulgar mistake of dreaming that I am persecuted whenever I am contradicted.”