We Love Without Heeding Reason, And Cease

The Reader Of These Memoirs Will Discover That I Never Had Any Fixed Aim Before My Eyes, And That My System, If It Can Be Called A System, Has Been To Glide Away Unconcernedly On The Stream Of Life, Trusting To The Wind Wherever It Led.

I Am Writing My Life To Laugh At Myself, And I Am Succeeding.

My Errors Will Point To Thinking Men The Various Roads, And Will Teach Them The Great Art Of Treading On The Brink Of The Precipice Without Falling Into It.

Man Is Free; But Not Unless He Believes He Is[.]

Heart And Head Are The Constituent Parts Of Character; Temperament Has Almost Nothing To Do With It, And, Therefore, Character Is Dependent Upon Education, And Is Susceptible Of Being Corrected And Improved.