We all need someone who can help us do what we already can.

But lest I should mislead any when I have my own head and obey my whims, let me remind the reader that I am only an experimenter.Do not set the least value on what I do, or the least discredit on what I do not, as if I pretended to settle any thing as true or false. I unsettle all things. No facts are to me sacred; none are profane; I simply experiment, an endless seeker with no Past at my back.

If you would know what nobody knows, read what everybody reads, just one year afterwards.

The powers of the Soul are commensurate with its needs.

Fashion understands itself; good-breeding and personal superiority of whatever country readily fraternize with those of every other. The chiefs of savage tribes have distinguished themselves in London and Paris, by the purity of their tournure.

Character is higher than intellect. Thinking is the function; living is the functionary.

No man ever came to an experience which was satiating, but his good is tidings of a better. Onward and onward!