"We are sometimes as different from ourselves..." - Quote by Francois De La Rochefoucauld

“A great many men's gratitude is nothing but a secret desire to hook in more valuable kindnesses hereafter.”

“He is not to pass for a man of reason who stumbles upon reason by chance but he who knows it and can judge it and has a true taste for it.”

“If we are to judge of love by its consequences, it more nearly resembles hatred than friendship.”

“I am rooted, but I flow.”

“Man can hardly even recognize the devils of his own creation.”

“Walt Whitman, a kosmos, of Manhattan the son, Turbulent, fleshy, sensual, eating, drinking and breeding, No sentimentalist, no stander above men and women or apart from them, No more modest than immodest.”

“I never claimed to be anything more than a nice guy and an athlete.”

“The outward is only the outside of that which is within. Men are not concealed under habits, but are revealed by them; they are their true clothes.”

“But I will wear my heart upon my sleeve For daws to peck at: I am not what I am.”