If you mean to know yourself, interline such of these aphorisms as affect you agreeably in reading, and set a mark to such as left a sense of uneasiness with you; and then show your copy to whom you please.

Venerate four characters: the sanguine who has checked volatility and the rage for pleasure; the choleric who has subdued passion and pride; the phlegmatic eme…

Action, looks, words, steps, form the alphabet by which you may spell character.

The public seldom forgive twice.

If you want to know yourself, Just look how others do it; If you want to understand others, Look into your own heart.

At night I sit in my chamber and read the bible. Far in the distance roars the sea. Then I lie down and think for a long time about the calm and pale man from …

Zu unserer Besserung bedurfen wir eines Spiegels.