If modesty and candor are necessary to an author in his judgment of his own works, no less are they in his reader.

The modesty's a candle to thy merit.

I fancied I had some constancy of mind because I could bear my own sufferings, but found through the sufferings of others I could be weakened like a child.

It ain't just about writing on some documents,
author writes on to the readers' heart and mind.

Tis this desire of bending all things to our own purposes which turns them into confusion and is the chief source of every error in our lives.

I used to always read with a pen in my hand, as if the author and I were in a conversation.