Pride, If Not The Origin, Is The

If You Are Often Deceived By Those Around You, You May Be Sure That You Deserve To Be Deceived; And That Instead Of Railing At The General Falseness Of Mankind, You Have First To Pronounce Judgment On Your Own Jealous Tyranny, Or On Your Own Weak Credulity.

The Most Common-place People Become Highly Imaginative When They Are In A Passion. Whole Dramas Of Insult, Injury, And Wrong Pass Before Their Minds,--efforts Of Creative Genius, For There Is Sometimes Not A Fact To Go Upon.

Selfishness, When It Is Punished By The World, Is Mostly Punished Because It Is Connected With Egotism.

We Are Frequently Understood The Least By Those Who Have Known Us The Longest.

Is Boredom Anything Less Than The Sense Of One's Faculties Slowly Dying?