The Thing In The World I Am

A Man Is Not Hurt So Much By What Happens, As By His Opinion Of What Happens.

Almost All The Opinions We Have Are Taken On Authority And On Credit.

This Idea Is More Surely Understood By Interrogation; What Do I Know? Which I Bear As My Motto With The Emblem Of A Pair Of Scales.

One May Be Humble Out Of Pride.

Judgement Holds In Me A Magisterial Seat, At Least It Carefully Tries To. It Lets My Feelings Go Their Way, Both Hatred And Friendship, Even The Friendship I Bear Myself, Without Being Changed And Corrupted By Them.