I will follow the right side even to the fire, but excluding the fire if I can.
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.
Wise people are foolish if they cannot adapt to foolish people.
Lend yourself to others, but give yourself to yourself.
Reason has so many forms that we do not know which to choose-Experiment has no fewer.
What a wonderful thing it is that drop of seed, from which we are produced, bears in itself the impressions, not only of the bodily shape, but of the thoughts and inclinations of our fathers!