“Everybody liked better to conjecture how the thing was, than simply to know it; for conjecture soon became more confident than knowledge, and had a more liberal allowance for the incompatible.”

“Conscience is harder than our enemies, knows more, accuses with more nicety.”

“In Rome it seems as if there were so many things which are more wanted in the world than pictures.”

“I never had any preference for her, any more than I have a preference for breathing.”

“I think I dislike what I don't like more than I like what I like.”

“Few things hold the perception more thoroughly captive than anxiety about what we have got to say”

“What loneliness is more lonely than distrust?”