autobiography at least saves a man or woman that the world is curious about from the publication of a string of mistakes called 'Memoirs.

What makes life dreary is the want of a motive.

Things are achieved when they are well begun.

For we all of us, grave or light, get our thoughts entangled in metaphors, and act fatally on the strength of them.

Great feelings will often take the aspect of error, and great faith the aspect of illusion.

Perhaps his might be one of the natures where a wise estimate of consequences is fused in the fires of that passionate belief which determines the consequences it believes in.

Scepticismcan never be thoroughly applied, else life would come to a standstill.