Temperament, Like Liberty, Is Important Despite How

It Is One Of The Sublime Provincialities Of New York That Its Inhabitants Lap Up Trivial Gossip About Essential Nobodies They've Never Set Eyes On, While Continuing To Boast That They Could Live Somewhere For Twenty Years Without So Much As Exchanging Pleasantries With Their Neighbors Across The Hall.

Having Disciples Is In The End Like Having Children, Only Not With Love But With Self-love Preeminent.

The Essence Of The Expert Is That His Field Shall Be Very Special And Narrow: One Of The Ways In Which He Inspires Confidence Is To Rigidly Limit Himself To The Little Toe; He Would Scarcely Venture An Off-the-record Opinion On An Infected Little Finger.

One Must Never Judge The Writer By The Man; But One May Fairly Judge The Man By The Writer.

Has There Ever Been An Age So Rife With Neurotic Sensibility, With That State Of Near Shudders, Or Near Hysteria, Or Near Nausea, Much Of It Induced By Trifles, Which Used To Belong To People Who Were At Once Ill-adjusted And Over-civilized?