It's all been very interesting.

While conscience is our friend, all is at peace; however once it is offended, farewell to a tranquil mind.

It's all been very interesting.

I despise the pleasure of pleasing people that I despise.

to be reasonable one should never complain but when one hopes redress.

I have all my life been on my guard against the information conveyed by the sense of hearing -- it being one of my earliest observations, the universal inclination of humankind is to be led by the ears, and I am sometimes apt to imagine that they are given to men as they are to pitchers, purposely that they may be carried about by them.

There is no remedy so easy as books, which if they do not give cheerfulness, at least restore quiet to the most troubled mind.