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| I loathe the expression ‘What makes him tick.’ It is the American mind, looking for simple and singular solution, that uses the foolish expression. A person not only ticks, he also chimes and strikes the hour, falls and breaks and has to be put together again, and sometimes stops like an electric clock in a thunderstorm.
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A great deal of good can be done in the world if one is not too careful who gets the credit.
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A long experience impresses me with the belief that selfishness does not grow in intensity as we move downward in society from class to class.
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A vice utterly at variance with the happiness of him who harbors it, and, as such, condemned by self-love.
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All the good maxims which are in the world fail when applied to one’s self.
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Almost always it is the fear of being ourselves that brings us to the mirror.
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An humble knowledge of thyself is a surer way to God than a deep search after learning
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Aristotle has said that man is by nature a social animal, and he might have added, a selfish one too. Heroism, self-denial, and magnanimity in all instances, where they do not spring from a principle of religion, are but splendid altars on which we sacrifice one kind of self-love to another.
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As for the largest-hearted of us, what is the word we write most often in our cheque-books?
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As frost to the bud, and blight to the blossom, even such is self-interest to friendship; for confidence cannot dwell where selfishness is porter at the gate.
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Be not in the desire of thine own ease.
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Be, as many now are, luxurious to yourself, parsimonious to your friends. [Lat., Esto, ut nunc multi, dives tibi pauper amicis.]
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But if these (As I am sure they do) bear fire enough To kindle cowards and to steel with valor The melting spirits of women, then, countrymen, What need we any spur but our own cause To prick us to redress?
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Despite those titles, power, and pelf, The wretch, concentred all in self, Living, shall forfeit fair renown, And, doubly dying, shall go down To the vile dust from whence he sprung, Unwept, unhonour’d and unsung.
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Each of us is something of a schizophrenic personality, tragically divided against ourselves.
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Each one wishes for his own advantage, rather than that of others.
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Enough of self, that darling luscious theme, O’er which philosophers in raptures dream; Of which with seeming disregard they write Then prizing most when most they seem to slight.
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Every man has a mob self and an individual self, in varying proportions.
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Every one for his home, every one for himself. [Fr., Chacun chez soi, chaucun pour soi.]
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Everyone for his home, everyone for himself.
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