“MORE characters are acted upon the stage of the world than on the stage of the theater. We are constantly managing our reputation with our neighbors, either by fictitious presentations of one’s self, or by suppression of one’s true character, or by in some way or other being one thing to one’s self, and another to one’s neighbor, playing the comedy of vanity in one way to one person and another way to another. Self-love moves us to act these parts, although the actor most commonly appears through the character. The social life is, therefore, the difficult field for exercising the sincerity of humility.”

— William Bernard Ullathorne (1889)

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