Only the insane take themselves seriously.
Every kind of writing is hypocritical.
Some people are born to lift heavy weights, some are born to juggle golden balls.
The hospitable instinct is not wholly altruistic. There is pride and egoism mixed up with it.
I have known no man of genius who had not to pay, in some affliction or defect, either physical or spiritual, for what the gods had given him.
People are either born hosts or born guests.