Unresolved Dissonances Between The Characters And Dispositions

In A Seriously Intended Intellectual Emancipation A Person's Mute Passions And Cravings Also Hope To Find Their Advantage.

The Perfect Woman Perpetrates Literature As She Perpetrates A Small Sin: As An Experiment, In Passing, Glancing Around To See Whether Anybody Notices--and To Make Sure That Somebody Notices.

Do Not Talk About Giftedness, Inborn Talents! One Can Assume Great Men Of All Kinds Who Were Very Little Gifted. They Acquired Greatness, Became “geniuses” (as We Put It), Through Qualities The Lack Of Which No One Who Knew What They Were Would Boast Of: They All Possessed That Seriousness Of The Efficient Workman Which First Learns To Construct The Parts Properly Before It Ventures To Fashion A Great Whole; They Allowed Themselves Time For It, Because They Took More Pleasure In Making The Little, Secondary Things Well Than In The Effect Of A Dazzling Whole.

This Is One Of The Stout-hearted Old Warriors: He Is Angry With Civilization Because He Supposes That Its Aim Is To Make All Goodthings--honors, Treasures, Beautiful Women--accessible Even To Cowards.

To Predict The Behavior Of Ordinary People In Advance, You Only Have To Assume That They Will Always Try To Escape A Disagreeable Situation With The Smallest Possible Expenditure Of Intelligence.