We are apt to disagree with whatever does not provide an occasion to congratulate ourselves.
Oct 132017
Self-Loving
We all come into this world with our little egos equipped with individual horns. If we don’t blow them, who will?
—DeWitt
Sep 072017
People who refuse to be categorized are all alike.
Jul 192017
Where others regard us as of no use, we fancy ourselves despised.
Jun 212017
Vision, n. What no one but yourself can see.
May 152017
No one calls anything important that disconfirms his prejudices.
Feb 282017
Self-criticism, painful as it may be, at least affords the opportunity to think about oneself.
Feb 012017
A love of mankind is always unrequited.
Jan 132017
Major vices are too alien and fascinating to earn our unalloyed contempt; we reserve that for minor ones.
Dec 262016
Noble deeds, performed without regard for reputation or reward, would be more common if there was just some way to get the word out.
Dec 222016
To imagine oneself facing an unpleasant truth — few sensations are as pleasant.