I aim here only at revealing myself, who will perhaps be different tomorrow, if I learn something new which changes me.

The public weal requires that men should betray, and lie, and massacre.

If I were a maker of books I should compile a register, with comments, of different deaths. He who should teach people to die, would teach them to live.

I have never known a greater miracle, or monster, than myself.

What harm cause not those huge draughts or pictures which wanton youth with chalk or coals draw in each passage, wall or stairs of our great houses, whence a cruel contempt of our natural store is bred in them?

But as Nature is the best guide, teaching must be the development of natural inclinations, for which purpose the teacher must watch his pupil and listen to him, not continually bawl words into his ears as if pouring water into a funnel. Good teaching will come from a mind well made rather than well filled.

I may indeed very well happen to contradict myself; but truth, as Demades said, I do not contradict.