Excess always carries its own retribution.
I have met a thousand scamps; but I never met one who considered himself so. Self-knowledge isn't so common.
It is a kind of blindness--poverty. We can only grope through life when we are poor, hitting and maiming ourselves against every angle.
Indifference is the invisible giant of the world.
Fame! it is the flower of a day, that dies when the next sun rises.
Intensely selfish people are always very decided as to what they wish. They do not waste their energies in considering the good of others.