Filth is always a sign of weakness - in the mouth of the user and in the mind of the writer.

Knowledge fills a large brain; it merely inflates a small one.

It is not only useless, it is harmful, to believe in oneself until one truly knows oneself. And to know oneself means to accept our moments of insanity, of eccentricity, of childishness and blindness.

Nice things are done for our own sake, not for the sake of others. The pleasure must reside in the performance, not in the applause. Good deeds are, in a deeper psychological way, a favor to oneself. If this is not grasped, then our whole sense of personal relationships becomes warped.

Intolerance is the most socially acceptable form of egotism, for it permits us to assume superiority without personal boasting.

Gourmet: Usually little more than a glutton festooned with credit cards.

Isolation always perverts; when a man lives only among his own sort, he soon begins to believe that his sort are the best sort. This attitude breeds both the arrogance of the conservative and the bitterness of the radical.