Original Outlook on Life

There is a perfectly genuine and practical disadvantage in having an original and interesting outlook upon life. The disadvantage is that a man who has it lives in a cosmos of his own, with new mountains and new cities and new stars. The whole universe is so lucid to him that he does not know how complicated and inscrutable appear the fragments of his view which he reveals. When he is most frank and explanatory he is called obscure, when he is most sensational he is called abstruse, when he endeavours to be particularly bald and honest he is called affected.

-The Pall Magazine, Volume 25 (1900)