"I am in earnest; I will not equivocate; I will not excuse; I will not retreat a single inch; and I will be heard."

"With reasonable men I will reason; with humane men I will plea; but to tyrants I will give no quarter, nor waste arguments where they will certainly be lost."

"This is the short and the long of it."

"The best way to have a good idea is to have lots of ideas."

"Man, I was tame compared to what they do now, are you kidding ? All that I ever did was just jiggle."

"Be thou as chaste as ice, as pure as snow, thou shalt not escape calumny. Get thee to a nunnery, go."

"Keep a diary, and someday it'll keep you."

"I don't believe that the public knows what it wants; this is the conclusion that I have drawn from my career."