“To prejudge other men's notions before we have looked into them is not to show their darkness but to put out our own eye”

“To be sick is to enjoy monarchical prerogatives”

“How sickness enlarges the dimensions of a man's self to himself”

“A good metaphor is something even the police should keep an eye on”

“A village is a hive of glass, where nothing unobserved can pass”

“You never fail until you stop trying”