The growth of a passion is a very peculiar thing.

In highly organized intellectual and artistic types it is so often apt to begin with keen appreciation of certain qualities, modified by many, many mental reservations.

The egoist, the intellectual, gives but little of himself and asks much.

Nevertheless, the lover of life, male or female, finding himself or herself in sympathetic accord with such a nature, is apt to gain much.
Cowperwood was innately and primarily an egoist and intellectual, though blended strongly therewith, was a humane and democratic spirit.

We think of egoism and intellectualism as closely confined to the arts.