Arrogance frowns; pride smiles.
Fail, and your friends feel superior. Succeed, and they feel resentful.
We express disappointment in everything except ourselves.
Unemployment diminishes people. Leisure enlarges them.
The ugly can achieve an absoluteness beyond the reach of beauty.
Literary tradition is full of lies about poverty-the jolly beggar, the poor but happy milkmaid, the wholesome diet of porridge, etc.