But then again, I know quite a few people that think anyone crazy enough to love them would have to be strange. The following excerpt discusss those who are unapproachable, which I sense you feel you are. So far as personal observation and experience goes, I have proven this idea to be utterly without foundation. A haughty exterior more frequently hides an empty head and heart than any profound quality. As we advance in life we save our thumbs, and our tempers by choosing the yielding almond and pecan and letting the doubtful walnut alone.
Life is too short to waste it in such a difficult and often disappointing achievement. . . .
She knows that her nature is meagre, and she is delighted to think she is hiding her own barrenness so successfully from observers behind a haughty exterior. Toss it aside with the empty shells, and satisfy hunger with those which readily yield to the warm steam. Were there but one bivalve to be had it would be different, and the stubborn shell may only hold a shriveled oyster at best. The inaccessible man says he does not wish to waste his affability on people he may never meet a second time. He wants to find out that people are worth while before he meets them half-way.