I like the truth sometimes, but I don't care enough for it to hanker after it

Let us guess that whenever we read a sentence and like it, we unconsciously store it away in our model-chamber; and it goes, with the myriad of its fellows, to the building, brick by brick, of the eventual edifice which we call our style

I like man, but not men

It's better to do things you like than to think about what you don't like.

To set up what you like against what you dislike, this is the disease of the mind.

Ugly is just another term for "not suited to my tastes."