Nowadays we are all of us so hard up that the only pleasant things to pay are compliments. Theyโre the only things we can pay.
Oscar WildeThat is what the highest criticism really is, the record of one's own soul. It is more fascinating than history, as it is concerned simply with oneself. It is more delightful than philosophy, as its subject is concrete and not abstract, real and not vague. It is the only civilized form of autobiography.
Oscar Wilde