Some things become so completely our own that we forget them. – Antonio Porchia, Voces, 1943, translated from Spanish by W.S. Merwin

The only man we have any respect for is the man who uses all the endowment he has, and uses it until he bleeds. – Martin H. Fischer (1879–1962) [Preceding Fischerisms entry — Karl Lu

Care for yourself enough to listen carefully to what you say to yourself. – Willis Goth Regier, In Praise of Flattery, 2007

There is a sort of man who pays no attention to his good actions, but is tormented by his bad ones. This is the type that most often writes about himself. – W. Somerset Maugham, The Summing Up, 1938