Who said “As individuals and as a nation, we now suffer from social narcissism. The beloved Echo…”?

“A person wrapped up in himself makes a small package.”

“A national debt, if it is not excessive, will be to us a national blessing.”

“I've never any pity for conceited people, because I think they carry their comfort about with them.”

“He who is enamored of himself will at least have the advantage of being inconvenienced by few rivals.”

“Solvency is maintained by means of the national debt, on the principle, "If you will not lend me the money, how can I pay you?"”

“A sign of a celebrity is often that his name is worth more than his services.”

“Celebrity-worship and hero-worship should not be confused. Yet we confuse them every day, and by doing so we come dangerously close to depriving ourselves of all real models. We lose sight of the men and women who do not simply seem great because they are famous but are famous because they are great. We come closer and closer to degrading all fame into notoriety.”

“Of all the nations in the world, the United States was built in nobody's image. It was the land of the unexpected, of unbounded hope, of ideals, of quest for an unknown perfection. It is all the more unfitting that we should offer ourselves in images. And all the more fitting that the images which we make wittingly or unwittingly to sell America to the world should come back to haunt and curse us.”

“Time makes heroes but dissolves celebrities.”

“The world of crime is a last refuge of the authentic, uncorrupted, spontaneous event.”

“The greatest obstacle to discovery is not ignorance -- it is the illusion of knowledge.”