He seems to me to have displayed that frank, affectionate brotherliness, untainted by sentimentality, which is the essence of equal friendship; and then, too, he gave his heart and his thoughts and his dreams to his friends so prodigally and lavishly-not egotistically, as some have given-with no self-absorption, no lack of sympathy, but in the spirit of the old fisherman in Theocritus, who says to his comrade, "Come, be a sharer of my dreams as of my fishing," and then tells his pretty vision.
"The Silent Isle"
Arthur Christopher Benson
He is normally always responsive to psychical influences-as much so as an Australian Arunta or an American Red Man, who also, like him, are fortunate enough to have escaped being corrupted by what we egotistically, to distinguish ourselves from them, call 'civilization'.
"The Fairy-Faith in Celtic Countries"
W. Y. Evans Wentz
Gratton egotistically supposed her thought was of him; King would have been amazed to know that she was already watching the house for his coming.
"The Everlasting Whisper"
Jackson Gregory