Up To A Certain Point Every Man

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.

The Deadliest Foe To Virtue Would Be Complete Self-knowledge.

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.

There Are Persons Who, When They Cease To Shock Us, Cease To Interest Us.

An Aphorism Is True Where It Has Fixed The Impression Of A Genuine Experience.