By recognizing a favorable opinion of yourself, and taking pleasure in it, you in a measure give yourself and your peace of mind into the keeping of another, of whose attitude you can never be certain. You have a new source of doubt and apprehension.

There is hardly any one so insignificant that he does not seem imposing to some one at some time.

There is no way to penetrate the surface of life but by attacking it earnestly at a particular point.

Prudence and compromise are necessary means, but every man should have an impudent end which he will not compromise.

Society is an interweaving and interworking of mental selves. I imagine your mind and especially what your mind thinks about my mind and what my mind thinks about what your mind thinks about my mind. I dress my mind before you and expect that you will dress yours before mine. Whoever cannot or will not perform these feats is not properly in the game.

The bashful are always aggressive at heart.

A cat cares for you only as a source of food, security and a place in the sun.