"I am not apt to follow blindly the lead of other men."

"To kill an error is as good a service as to establish a new truth."

"I had no intention of writing an autobiography, but I found myself doing so."

"I hate a Barnacle as no man ever did before, not even a Sailor in a slow-sailing ship."

"I have been much struck by the fact that the more I have read about the subject, the less I have understood it."