Flattery makes fools of the best of us.
Very often adverse criticism goes to craft, and that sounds an alarm to which attention should be paid.
I don't approve the informality in the world today, Mr. James. It's made strangers of us all.
History's like a story in a way: it depends on who's telling it.
There’s no snobbery like that of the poor toward one another.
We reveal more of ourselves in the lies we tell than we do when we try to tell the truth.