This idea of selfishness as a virtue, as opposed to generosity: That, to me, is unnatural.
“Green is the prime color of the world, and that from which its loveliness arises.”
“I have asked myself once or twice lately what was my natural bent. I have no doubt at all: It is to look at each day for the evil of that day and have a go at it, and that is why I have never failed to have an acute interest in each morning's letters.”