"Strong minds discuss ideas, average minds discuss events, weak minds discuss people."

"I have gained nothing by not living quietly, and I have not gained anything that is worthy of the name of gain."

"Trust not a woman when she weeps, for it is her nature to weep when she wants her will."

"I only wish that ordinary people had an unlimited capacity for doing harm; then they might have an unlimited power for doing good."

"It is better to suffer wrong than to do wrong."