When we have ceased to love the stench of the human animal, either in others or in ourselves, then are we condemned to misery, and clear thinking can begin.

We do not exist for ourselves alone, and it is only when we are fully convinced of this fact that we begin to love ourselves properly and thus also love others.

All charming people have something to conceal, usually their total dependence on the appreciation of others.

No one over thirty-five is worth meeting who has not something to teach us, - something more than we could learn for ourselves, from a book.

Then, certainly, to be a Christian is to love God above all, and our neighbour as ourselves.

The love of liberty is the love of others; the love of power is the love of ourselves.
(1778 - 1830)