Introduction #4: Giving Style to One's Character: A Great and Rare Art

One thing is needful: to give style to one's character, a great and rare art. It is practiced by those who survey all the strengths and weaknesses that their nature has to offer, and then fit them together into an artistic plan until each appears as art and reason and even weaknesses delight the eye. Here, a great mass of second nature has been added. T…