"There are books of which the backs and covers are by far the best parts."

"I believe that the present system of prison discipline is a failure."

"It's a good thing to be rich, and a good thing to be strong, but it is a better thing to be beloved of many friends."

"I am a man who has always been very sensitive to the opinions of others, and I have always been very anxious to stand well with them."

"It is a most extraordinary, and at the same time a most natural, thing, that a man should be able to look back upon his life and see it as a whole."