One Does Well To Put On Gloves

What Is The Vanity Of The Vainest Man Compared With The Vanity Which The Most Modest Possesses When, In The Midst Of Nature And The World, He Feels Himself To Be Man!

Someone Who Does Not Write Books, Who Thinks A Lot, And Who Lives In Unsatisfying Society Will Usually Be A Good Letter- Writer.

There Is A Universal Need To Exercise Some Kind Of Power, Or To Create For One's Self The Appearance Of Some Power, If Only Temporarily, In The Form Of Intoxication.

From The State The Exceptional Individual Cannot Expect Much. He Is Seldom Benefited By Being Taken Into Its Service; The Only Certain Advantage It Can Give Him Is Complete Independence. Only Real Culture Will Prevent Him Being Too Early Tired Out Or Used Up, And Will Spare Him The Exhausting Struggle Against Culture-philistinism.

The Same Relation Exists Between Merchant And Pirate, Who For A Long Period Are One And The Same Person: Where The One Function Appears To Them Inadvisable, They Exercise The Other.