People never want to be told anything they do not believe already.

Time changes all things and cultivates even in herself an appreciation of irony, and, therefore, why shouldn't I have changed a trifle?

Thou shalt not offend against the notions of thy neighbor.

People never want to be told anything they do not believe already.

As it is, plain reasoning assures me I am not indispensable to the universe: but with this reasoning, somehow, does not travel my belief.

In what else, pray, does man differ from the other animals except in that he is used by words?

At all events, I do not mean to leave it unaltered.