Don't flatter yourself you have said anything very clever if you ever take it into your head to tell me so.

I know it much better than you.

So it is, I can't help it.

I am tired to death of myself; I would give all I possess to get out of myself; but somehow, at the end, I find myself so vastly more interesting than nine tenths of the people I meet.

If a person wished to do me a favor I would say to him, 'I beg you, with tears in my eyes, to interest me.