No Man Should Ever Publish

Nothing Is So Soothing To Our Self-esteem As To Find Our Bad Traits In Our Forebears. It Seems To Absolve Us.

Magnanimous People Have No Vanity, They Have No Jealousy, And They Feed On The True And The Solid Wherever They Find It. And, What Is More, They Find It Everywhere.

A Man Who Has The Courage Of His Platitudes Is Always A Successful Man. The Instructed Man Is Ashamed To Pronounce In An Orphic Manner What Everybody Knows, And Because He Is Silent People Think He Is Making Fun Of Them. They Like A Man Who Expresses Their Own Superficial Thoughts In A Manner That Appears To Be Profound. This Enables Them To Feel That They Are Themselves Profound.

No One In This Country Has Any Root Anywhere; We Don't Live In America, We Board Here, We Are Like Spiders That Run Over The Surface Of The Water.

It Is Not That The French Are Not Profound, But They All Express Themselves So Well That We Are Led To Take Their Geese For Swans.