The egotist is next door to a fanatic. [ Samuel Smiles ]

Here is the egotist's code: everything for himself, nothing for others. [ Sanial-Dubay ]

Much that is published as a novel is only anonymous biography. Many a man who is a bore in conversation may have qualities which give indescribable charms to narrative; and the egotist, if he only have the art to conceal his identity, can then hold the reader by the powerful grasp of sympathy. [ R. S. Mackenzie ]