"There are those who pass through life with no greater care than to keep in a good humor with themselves; who dislike the spectacle of anything that greatly moves or visibly reproaches them; who therefore shun those that know more, see deeper or aim higher than themselves; they are ever on the search, not for correction of their errors, but for confirmation of their prejudices; not to hear rebukes to their littleness, but always looking for praises of their greatness; and who hurry away from the uneasiness of self-confession, if it were ever to begin to flow, and instead hide from it behind their mists of self-justification." Martineau.