Then, all censure of a man's self is oblique praise.

You are a philosopher, Dr. Johnson. I have tried too in my time to be a philosopher; but, I don't know how, cheerfulness was always breaking in.

What can he mean by coming among us? He is not only dull himself, but the cause of dullness in others.

We cannot tell the precise moment when friendship is formed. As in filling a vessel drop by drop, there is at last a drop which makes it run over; so in a seri…

'Most of the failings of Objectivism all pertain directly or indirectly to issues of psychology.'[1]

One becomes a critic when one cannot be an artist, just as a man becomes a stool pigeon when he cannot be a soldier.

Commonly we say a judgement falls upon a man for something in him we cannot abide.