Individualism is rather like innocence: There must be something unconscious about it. – Louis Kronenberger, Company Manners, 1954

There is in a man an upwelling spring of life, energy, love, whatever you like to call it. If a course is not cut for it, it turns the ground round it into a swamp. – Mark Rutherford (William Hale White), More Pages from a Journal, 1910

Hateful to me as the gates of Hades is that man who hides one thing in his heart and speaks another. – Homer

No man for any considerable period can wear one face to himself and another to the multitude, without finally getting bewildered as to which may be the true. – Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Scarlet Letter