Quotes about Introspection

To place man properly at the present time, he stands somewhere between the angels and the French.

Let us consider that we are all partially insane. It will explain us to each other; it will unriddle many riddles; it will make clear and simple many things which are involved in haunting and harassing difficulties and obscurities now.

April 1. This is the day upon which we are reminded of what we are on the other three hundred and sixty-four..

I have been through some terrible things in my life, some of which actually happened.

I love to hear myself talk, because I get so much instruction and moral upheaval out of it.

You don't know about me without you have read a book by the name of The Adventures of Tom Sawyer; but that ain't no matter.

None are so ready to find fault with others as those who do things worthy of blame themselves.

We have reached a little altitude where we may look down upon the Indian Thugs with a complacent shudder; and we may even hope for a day, many centuries hence, when our posterity will look down upon us in the same way.

We don not think, in the holy places; we think in bed, afterwards, when the glare, and the the noise, and the confusion are gone, and in fancy we revisit alone, the solemn monuments of the past, and summon the phantom pageants of an age that has passed away.

He lay down upon a sumptuous divan, and proceeded to instruct himself with honest zeal.

Whenever you are popular just pause and see the reflect.

In the days ahead we must not consider it unpatriotic to raise certain basic questions about our national character.