Every Abridgement Of A Good Book Is

I Speak The Truth, Not My Fill Of It, But As Much As I Dare Speak; And I Dare To Do So A Little More As I Grow Old.

And Therefore, Reader, I Myself Am The Subject Of My Book: It Is Not Reasonable That You Should Employ Your Leisure On A Topic So Frivolous And So Vain. Therefore, Farewell.

We Are All Patchwork, And So Shapeless And Diverse In Composition That Each Bit, Each Moment, Plays Its Own Game.

Virtue Rejects Facility To Be Her Companion. She Requires A Craggy, Rough And Thorny Way.

A Man Should Not So Much Respect What He Eats, As With Whom He Eats.