I can tell where my own shoe pinches me; and you must not think, sir, to catch old birds with chaff.

In me the need to talk is a primary impulse, and I can't help saying right off what comes to my tongue.

Let each man say what he chooses; if because of this I am criticized by the ignorant, I shall not be chastised by the learned.

A knight errant who turns mad for a reason deserves neither merit nor thanks. The thing is to do it without cause.