"'Tis greatly wise to talk with our past hours; And ask them what report they bore to heaven: And how they might have …"

"As I walked by myself, I talked to myself And myself replied to me; And the questions myself then put to myself, With…"

"Our wisdom, in so far as it ought to be deemed true and solid Wisdom, consists almost entirely of two parts: the know…"

"How queer everything is to-day! And yesterday things went on just as usual. I wonder if I've been changed in the nigh…"

"The test of a civilized person is first self-awareness, and then depth after depth of sincerity in self-confrontation."

"To become different from what we are, we must have some awareness of what we are. ... The very people who are most se…"

"Ruthless toward itself, the Enlightenment has eradicated the last remnant of its own self-awareness."

"I have sometimes asked myself whether my country is the better for my having lived at all? I do not know that it is. …"

"One self-approving hour whole years out-weighs Of stupid starers and of loud huzzas."

"There is a luxury in self-dispraise; And inward self-disparagement affords To meditative spleen a grateful feast."