Sincerity: willingness to spend one's own money.

Middle age went by while I was mourning for my lost youth.

Let's have some good, old-fashioned literature, with a virgin and a moral.

Literary tradition is full of lies about poverty-the jolly beggar, the poor but happy milkmaid, the wholesome diet of porridge, etc.

Sentimentality is the respect the cold-hearted pay to feeling.

We are more tied to our faults than to our virtues.

Psychology keeps trying to vindicate human nature. History keeps undermining the effort.