"I have always been a friend of the oppressed, and an enemy of the oppressor."

"Proud Wellington, with eagle beak so curled, That nose, the hook where he suspends the world!"

"If I am fool, it is, at least, a doubting one; and I envy no one the certainty of his self-approved wisdom."

"I am no Platonist, I am nothing at all; but I would sooner be a Paulician, Manichean, Spinozist, Gentile, Pyrrhonian, Zoroastrian, than one of the seventy-two villainous sects tearing each other to pi…"

"We are all selfish and I no more trust myself than others with a good motive."