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When a man is wrapped up in himself, he makes a pretty small package.

A person wrapped up in himself makes a small package.

A man should have duties outside of himself; without them, he is a mere balloon, inflated with thin egotism and drifting nowhere.

Man is a universe within himself.

It is in his pleasure that a man really lives; it is from his leisure that he constructs the true fabric of self.

I am not that attached to material things. And the good thing is I can make choices. I have very few possessions. Luckily, as a man you don't need much... a few papers, a couple of books, and a few shirts, jackets, sweaters. It fits in a little thing, in a paper bag, so it's very easy.

A man is hindered and distracted in proportion as he draws outward things to himself.

A man by himself is in bad company.

People give one another things that can't be gift wrapped.

He had a wonderful talent for packing thought close, and rendering it portable.