It is not a selfish one.

The deepest self-communings are necessary to one who would know human nature, because self is the only human creature that can be known with a perfect intimacy.

'No one but yourself can tell,' as Arthur once wrote to me, 'what ruled the lines in your face.'" But Arthur, above all others that I have ever known, had passed from the particular to the general.

Plato's praise of love was based on the principle that the philosopher passed from the love of one fair form to the love of abstract beauty.

The fault is that so many never pass the initiation.