“There is no witness so dreadful, no accuser so terrible as the conscience that dwells in the heart of every man.”

“every man is tabernacled in every other, and he in exchange and so on in an endless complexity of being and witness to the uttermost edge of the world.”

“Are you slow-witted? I'm so sorry for you. It's terrible to be dull and stupid.”

“A man's conscience and his judgment are the same thing, and, as the judgment, so also the conscience may be erroneous”

“In his heart every man knows quite well that, being unique, he will be in the world only once and that no imaginable chance will for a second time gather together into a unity so strangely variegated an assortment as he is: he knows it but hides it like a bad conscience.”

“Too much of our history will seem to have taken place in the halls of capitols, where the accusers have mostly been guilty, and so have borne witness to nothing.”