Masked, I advance.

“I am thing that thinks: that is, a things that doubts,affirms, denies, understa…”

“And what more am I? I look for aid to the imagination. [But how mistakenly!] I …”

“...the perusal of all excellent books is, as it were, to interview with the nob…”

“Le bon sens est la chose du monde la mieux partagée : car chacun pense en être …”