Cheating Is A Sin, But Honest Cunning

God, Great Principle Of All Minor Principles, God, Who Is Himself Without A Principle, Could Not Conceive Himself, If, In Order To Do It, He Required To Know His Own Principle.

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.

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.

Economy Spoils Pleasure

The History Of My Life Must Begin By The Earliest Circumstance Which My Memory Can Evoke It Will Therefore Commence When I Had Attained The Age Of Eight Years And Four Months.