I have led a more virtuous life than I intended, or thought I was
leading. When I was young I thought I was vicious: now I know that I was
not and that my unconscious knowledge was sounder than my conscious. I
regret some things that I have done, but not many. I regret that so many
should think I did much which I never did, and should know of what I did
in so garbled and distorted a fashion as to have done me much mischief.
But if things were known as they actually happened, I believe I should
have less to be ashamed of than a good many of my neighbours—and less
also to be proud of.