Other passions have objects to flatter them, and seem to content and satisfy them for a while; there is power in ambition, pleasure in luxury, and pelf in covetousness; but envy can gain nothing but vexation.

One should be ever booted and spurred and ready to depart.

There were many terrible things in my life and most of them never happened.

You have your face bare; I am all face.

Who so hath his mind on taking, hath it no more on what he taketh.

My business is only to keep myself in motion, whilst motion pleases me; I only walk for the walk's sake.

Painting myself for others, I have painted my inward self with colors clearer than my original ones. I have no more made my book than my book has made me--a book consubstantial with its author, concerned with my own self, an integral part of my life; not concerned with some third-hand, extraneous purpose, like all other books.