Who said “There is no refuge from confession but suicide; and suicide is confession.”?

“A confession has to be part of your new life.”

“Literary confessors are contemptible, like beggars who exhibit their sores for money, but not so contemptible as the public that buys their books.”

“The confession of our failings is a thankless office. It savors less of sincerity or modesty than of ostentation. It seems as if we thought our weaknesses as good as other people's virtues.”

“If any ambitious man have a fancy to revolutionize, at one effort, the universal world of human thought, human opinion, and human sentiment, the opportunity is his own -- the road to immortal renown lies straight, open, and unencumbered before him. All that he has to do is to write and publish a very little book. Its title should be simple -- a few plain words -- ''My Heart Laid Bare.'' But -- this little book must be true to its title.”

“He that jokes confesses.”

“Mind is the great lever of all things.”

“Whatever makes men good Christians, makes them good citizens.”

“When tillage begins, other arts follow. The farmers, therefore, are the founders of human civilization.”

“Let us develop the resources of our land, call forth its powers, build up its institutions, promote all its great interests, and see whether we also, in our day and generation, may not perform something worthy to be remembered.”

“Wisdom begins at the end.”

“The past is at least secure.”