A Refusal Of Praise Is A Desire

What Men Have Called Friendship Is Only A Social Arrangement, A Mutual Adjustment Of Interests, An Interchange Of Services Given And Received; It Is, In Sum, Simply A Business From Which Those Involved Propose To Derive A Steady Profit For Their Own Self-love.

When Our Hatred Is Too Alive Puts Us Below What We Hate.

We May Say Of Agreeableness, As Distinct From Beauty, That It Is A Symmetry Whose Rules Are Unknown.

We Confess To Little Faults Only To Persuade Ourselves We Have No Great Ones.

Simplicity Is A Delicate Imposition.