"I wasn't treated in that office with all the deference due me, but I stood it till one day somebody went too far. Then I marched into the old gentleman's private office and laid down the law to him. I told him I wasn't going to endure such treatment another day. I was going to quit, that was what I was going to do, and I was going to quit right then and there. I unburdened my mind freely, and then I stopped to give him a chance to apologize and beg me not to ruin him by leaving. He didn't look up from his desk. He said to me in a polite kind of way, 'Please don't slam the door when you go out.'" --_Washington Post._ 1712 They that do much themselves deny, Receive more blessings from the sky. --_Creech._ 1713 SELF-DENIAL. Teach self-denial and make its practice pleasurable, and you create for the world a destiny more sublime than ever issued from the brain of the wildest dreamer. --_Sir Walter Scott._ 1714 Two things are difficult for man to do; 'Tis to be selfish and honest, too. 1715 Give us something to admire in yourself, not in your belongings.--(To one who boasts of his ancestry.) 1716 Do you want to know the man against whom you have most reason to guard yourself? Your looking glass will give you a very fair likeness of his face. --_Whately._ 1717 Don't support yourself on others; If the column falls, where are you? --_Shaw._ 1718 We judge ourselves by what we feel capable of doing, while others judge us by what we have already done. --_Longfellow._ 1719 The personal pronoun "I" should be the coat of arms of some individuals. --_Rivarol._ 1720 He that is warm is apt to think all are so. 1721 The Lord doesn't look so much at what you've given, as to what you have left. --_An Old Writer._ 1722 If solid happiness we prize, Within our breast this jewel lies, From our own selves our joys must flow, And that dear hut, our home. --_Cotton._ 1723 Self-interest is the compass by which some men Do set the course of their opinions. 1724 Remember that self-interest is more likely to warp your judgment than all other circumstances combined, therefore, look well to your duty when your interest is concerned. 1725 The world is very much ruled by interest alone. 1726 The least that one can say of himself is still too much. --_Joubert._ 1727 He that falls in love with himself will have no rival. 1728 No one can disgrace us but ourselves.