"'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."

"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."

"The psyche is awareized energy, in a state of constant creativity; a psychic pattern of multidimensionally expressed;…"

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