“There is no such thing as an underestimate of average intelligence.”
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One friend in a lifetime is much, two are many, three are hardly possible. Friendship needs a certain parallelism of life, a community of thought, a rivalry of aim.
Friends are born, not made.
I am an anarchist in politics and an impressionist in art as well as a symbolist in literature. Not that I understand what these terms mean, but I take them to be all merely synonyms of pessimist.
No man likes to have his intelligence or good faith questioned, especially if he has doubts about it himself.
