His Mind Is So Open

My External Sensations Are No Less Private To My Self Than Are My Thoughts Or My Feelings. In Either Case My Experience Falls Within My Own Circle, A Circle Closed On The Outside... The Whole World For Each Is Peculiar And Private To That Soul.

The Propriety Of Some Persons Seems To Consist In Having Improper Thoughts About Their Neighbors.

But When One Has Ceased To Have Them, Too Often One Cannot.

True Penitence Condemns To Silence. What A Man Is Ready To Recall He Would Be Willing To Repeat.

The Hunter For Aphorisms On Human Nature Has To Fish In Muddy Water, And He Is Even Condemned To Find Much Of His Own Mind.