A person who is too nice an observer of the business of the crowd, like one who is too curious in observing the labor of bees, will often be stung for his curiosity.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
When you go in search of honey you must expect to be stung by bees.
Some men spend their lives watching bees and ants, noting down the habits of these insects; my pleasure is to watch the human mind, noting how unselfish instincts rise to the surface and sink back again, making way for selfish instincts, each equally necessary, for the world would perish were it to become entirely selfish or entirely unselfish.
Modesty: the gentle art of enhancing your charm by pretending not to be aware of it.
Charming people live up to the very edge of their charm, and behave as outrageously as the world lets them.
Curiosity, n. An objectionable quality of the female mind. The desire to know whether or not a woman is cursed with curiosity is one of the most active and insatiable passions of the masculine soul.
A people whose souls are so little tuned to joy.
The human being is a most curious creature. He thinks he has got one soul, and he has got dozens.
I'm a dilettante. My governing word is 'curiosity.'
The man who practises unselfishness, who is genuinely interested in the welfare of others, who feels it a privilege to have the power to do a fellow-creature a kindness - even though polished manners and a gracious presence may be absent - will be an elevating influence wherever he goes.
Anyone who devotes time and attention to what makes people tick, to me, is a smart person.