What kind of truth is this which is true on one side of a mountain and false on the other?

In true education, anything that comes to our hand is as good as a book: the prank of a page- boy, the blunder of a servant, a bit of table talk - they are all part of the curriculum.

Experience teaches that a strong memory is generally joined to a weak judgment.

There is some shadow of delight and delicacy which smiles upon and flatters us even in the very lap of melancholy.

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

I want to be seen here in my simple, natural, ordinary fashion, without straining or artifice; for it is myself that I portray... I am myself the matter of my book.

Shame on all eloquence which leaves us with a taste for itself and not for its substance.