Have patience awhile; slanders are not long-lived. Truth is the child of time; erelong she shall appear to vindicate thee.
When everyone is against you, it means that you are absolutely wrong-- or absolutely right.
As long as you derive inner help and comfort from anything, keep it.
Ask not what you can do for your country. Ask what's for lunch.
Be careful that victories do not carry the seed of future defeats.
Shake off all the fears of servile prejudices, under which weak minds are servilely crouched. Fix reason firmly in her seat, and call on her tribunal for every fact, every opinion. Question with boldness even the existence of a God; because, if there be one, he must more approve of the homage of reason than that of blindfolded fear.
You freeze where you are, time stops, and your heart thunders in your ears.