The most fruitful and natural exercise for our minds is, in my opinion, conversation.
We need to interpret interpretations more than to interpret things.
We every day and every hour say things of another that we might more properly say of ourselves, could we but apply our observations to our own concerns.
Every man carries the entire form of human condition.
To make a crooked stick straight, we bend it the contrary way.
It is the rule of rules, and the general law of all laws, that every person should observe those of the place where he is.