Saturday, January 07, 2023
Reserved and Unsocial
William Dwight Whitney, quoted in Thomas Day Seymour, "William Dwight Whitney," American Journal of Philology 15.3 (1894) 271-298 (at 294):
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I am of a more than usually reserved and unsocial nature. I avoid society as much as I can, and am never quite comfortable in the company of any excepting those with whom I am most nearly bound. My besetting sin is burying myself in my books and papers, and too much overlooking all that is outside of them,—partly from natural tendencies, partly because I feel that in that way I shall on the whole do most good and give most pleasure to others.
