The Deadliest Foe To Virtue Would Be

It Is Good To Know What A Man Is, And Also What The World Takes Him For. But You Do Not Understand Him Until You Have Learnt How He Understands Himself.

The Hunter For Aphorisms On Human Nature Has To Fish In Muddy Water, And He Is Even Condemned To Find Much Of His Own Mind.

His Mind Is So Open - So Open That Ideas Simply Pass Through It.

Up To A Certain Point Every Man Is What He Thinks He Is.

The Man Whose Nature Is Such That By One Path Alone His Chief Desire Will Reach Consummation Will Try To Find It On That Path, Whatever It May Be, And Whatever The World Thinks Of It; And If He Does Not, He Is Contemptible.