Selves Quotes

To be interested in the public good we must be disinterested, that is, not interested in goods in which our personal selves are wrapped up.

When from our better selves we have too long been parted by the hurrying world, and droop. Sick of its business, of its pleasures tired, how gracious, how benign is solitude.

There are so many separate selves; no one who writes creatively hasn't felt that.

We shall not find life by refusing to let go of our precious, protected selves.