"I would rather have my ignorance than another man's knowledge, because I have so much more of it."

"I have been a great many things in my life, but I have never been a hypocrite."

"The very ink with which all history is written is merely fluid prejudice."

"Few things are harder to put up with than the annoyance of a good example."

"The human race is a race of cowards, and I am not ashamed to say it."