You Have Your Face Bare; I Am

My Life Has Been Full Of Terrible Misfortunes Most Of Which Never Happened.

And One Might Therefore Say Of Me That In This Book I Have Only Made Up A Bunch Of Other People's Flowers, And That Of My Own I Have Only Provided The String That Ties Them Together.

When I Quote Others I Do So In Order To Express My Own Ideas More Clearly.

One Man May Have Some Special Knowledge At First-hand About The Character Of A River Or A Spring, Who Otherwise Knows Only What Everyone Else Knows. Yet To Give Currency To This Shred Of Information, He Will Undertake To Write On The Whole Science Of Physics. From This Fault Many Great Troubles Spring.

The Only Thing Certain Is Nothing Is Certain.