“Other people do not see you at all, but guess at you by uncertain conjectures.”

“It is putting a very high price on one's conjectures to have someone roasted alive on their account.”

“All we do is to look after the opinions and learning of others: we ought to make them our own.”

“For I make others say what I cannot say so well,... I do not count my borrowings, but, weight them.... They are all, or very nearly all, from such famous and ancient names that they seem to identify themselves enough without me. ”

“If you don't know how to die, don't worry; Nature will tell you what to do on the spot, fully and adequately. She will do this job perfectly for you; don't bother your head about it.”

“I do not believe, from what I have been told about this people, that there is anything barbarous or savage about them, except that we all call barbarous anything that is contrary to our own habits.”

“Why do people respect the package rather than the man?”