SEE Shryock, John K. SICKELS, ELEANOR M. The gloomy egoist: moods and themes of melancholy from Gray to Keats.

For Branwell was a monstrous egoist.

On the contrary, we sympathise with him, especially in the big tragedy of his life, while quite admitting that to any casual acquaintance he must have appeared only a dull and uninteresting egoist.

Human beings are all incorrigible egoists more or less, furtive or frank.

" "It does if you're an incurable egoist.

The same applies to Benvenuto Cellinibully, assassin, insufferable egoist, and so forth, as well as artist.

But of this be sure, that no selfish, loveless egoist could have had and retained such friends.

(Unjustly so, for no mere egoist would have toiled as he toiled for Greek emancipation, in the nerve-racking campaign which cost him his life.)

Neither in the externals of life nor in the course of history is there any significance; for as it is all one whether an error occurs in the large type or in the small, so it is all one, as regards the essence of the matter, whether an evil disposition is mirrored as a conqueror of the world or a common swindler or ill-natured egoist.

It would be singular to imagine how very different the speech of an aggressive egoist, announcing the independence and divinity of man, would sound if he were seen hanging on to the planet by his boot soles.

But of this be sure, that no selfish, loveless egoist could have had and retained such friends.

And whereas the courtly egoist pays you compliments first and then returns to a more congenial self-contemplation, my burly young friend would, I have not the slightest doubt, grow more companionable and considerate every day that one knew him.