Depend not on fortune, but on conduct.
If you think you can win, you can win. Faith is necessary to victory.
A joke's a very serious thing.
Where so many hours have been spent in convincing myself that I am right, is there not some reason to fear I may be wrong?
My friend is one... who take me for what I am.
You need only reflect that one of the best ways to get yourself a reputation as a dangerous citizen these days is to go about repeating the very phrases which our founding fathers used in the struggle for independence.
A synonym is a word you use when you can't spell the word you first thought of.