Meanwhile, you cannot escape the internal intimations of your unsoundness.

A man's pride is the front and headpiece of his character, his soul's support or snare.

Look to it in youth.

I have to thank the interminable hours on my wretched sick-bed for a singularly beneficial investigation of the ledger of my deeds and omissions and moral stock.

Perhaps it has already struck you that one who takes the trouble to sit and write his history for as large a world as he can obtain, and shape his style to harmonize with every development of his nature, can no longer have much of the hard grain of pride in him.