True penitence condemns to silence. What a man is ready to recall he would be willing to repeat.

The one self- knowledge worth having is to know one's own mind.

The propriety of some persons seems to consist in having improper thoughts about their neighbors.

Few people would not be the worse for complete sincerity.

It is good to know what a man is, and also what the world takes him for. But you do not understand him until you have learnt how he understands himself.

The hunter for aphorisms on human nature has to fish in muddy water, and he is even condemned to find much of his own mind.

An aphorism is true where it has fixed the impression of a genuine experience.