I reject your reality and substitute it for my own.

I reject your reality and substitute it for my own.

Everything that is new or uncommon raises a pleasure in the imagination, because it fills the soul with an agreeable read more

Everything that is new or uncommon raises a pleasure in the imagination, because it fills the soul with an agreeable surprise, gratifies its curiosity, and gives it an idea of which it was not before possessed.

To many, total abstinence is easier than perfect moderation.

To many, total abstinence is easier than perfect moderation.

Humor is perhaps a sense of intellectual perspective: an awareness that some things are really important, others not; and that read more

Humor is perhaps a sense of intellectual perspective: an awareness that some things are really important, others not; and that the two kinds are most oddly jumbled in everyday affairs.

In the last analysis, our only freedom is the freedom to discipline ourselves.

In the last analysis, our only freedom is the freedom to discipline ourselves.

The shy man does have some slight revenge upon society for the torture it inflicts upon him. He is able, read more

The shy man does have some slight revenge upon society for the torture it inflicts upon him. He is able, to a certain extent, to communicate his misery. He frightens other people as much as they frighten him. He acts like a damper upon the whole room, and the most jovial spirits become, in his presence, depressed and nervous.

And castels buylt above in lofty skies,
Which never yet had good foundation.

And castels buylt above in lofty skies,
Which never yet had good foundation.

A real friend is one who walks in when the rest of the world walks out.

A real friend is one who walks in when the rest of the world walks out.

Bias and impartiality is in the eye of the beholder.

Bias and impartiality is in the eye of the beholder.