Life Is A Theatre Of Alarms And

If We Divine A Discrepancy Between A Man's Words And His Character, The Whole Impression Of Him Becomes Broken And Painful; He Revolts The Imagination By His Lack Of Unity, And Even The Good In Him Is Hardly Accepted.

Kindliness Seems To Exist Primarily As An Animal Instinct, So Deeply Rooted That Mental Degeneracy, Which Works From The Top Down,does Not Destroy It Until The Mind Sinks To The Lower Grades Of Idiocy.

There Is Perhaps No Sort Of Self More Subject To Dangerous Egotism Than That Which Deludes Itself With The Notion That It Is Not A Self At All, But Something Else. It Is Well To Beware Of Persons Who Believe That The Cause, The Mission, The Philanthropy, The Hero, Or Whatever It May Be That They Strive For, Is Outside Of Themselves, So That They Feel A Certain Irresponsibility, And Are Likely To Do Things Which They Would Recognize As Wrong If Done In Behalf Of An Acknowledged Self.

The More Developed Sexual Passion, In Both Sexes, Is Very Largely An Emotion Of Power, Domination, Or Appropriation. There Is No State Of Feeling That Says Mine, Mine, More Fiercely.

To Get Away From One's Working Environment Is, In A Sense, To Get Away From One's Self; And This Is Often The Chief Advantage Of Travel And Change.