When I quote others I do so in order to express my own ideas more clearly.

A man has need of tough ears to hear himself fairly judged.

The world is but a perpetual see-saw.

How often our involuntary facial motions testify to the thoughts we were keeping secret, and betray us to those around!

There is a certain amount of purpose, acquiescence, and satisfaction in nursing one's melancholy.

Might I have had my own will, I would not have married Wisdom herself, if she would have had me.

I determine nothing; I do not comprehend things; I suspend judgment; I examine.