I will not be concerned at other men’s not knowing me;I will be concerned at my own want of ability.

Experience, as a desire for experience, does not come off. We must not study ourselves while having an experience.

I need to go outside. I wouldn’t say I’m an outdoors person, but I like to go outside.

I probably wouldn’t make a good accountant. I don’t even understand what my accountant tells me. But the character is a sort of exaggerated version of me, he’s a little more frightened than I am, everything seems so much bigger to him than it does to me.

I don’t blame my own parents for the way I grew up, as quite often there is little choice in these issues.

Whoever blushes is already guilty; true innocence is ashamed of nothing.

The praise that comes from love does not make us vain, but more humble.

To thine own self be true, and it must follow, as the night the day, thou canst not then be false to any man.

This above all; to thine own self be true.

Learning is not attained by chance, it must be sought for with ardor , diligence.