“But how shall we expect charity towards others, when we are uncharitable to ourselves? Charity begins at home, is the voice of the world; yet is every man his greatest enemy, and, as it were, his own executioner.Sir Thomas Browne
“What other dungeon is so dark as one’s own heart! What jailer so inexorable as one’s self!Nathaniel Hawthorne
“The key to the period appeared to be that the mind had become aware of itself…. The young men were born with knives in their brain, a tendency to introversion, self-dissection, anatomizing of motives.Ralph Waldo Emerson