Criticism sometimes is really praise, and praise sometimes slander.
Silence is the safest policy if you are unsure of yourself.
Our virtues are often, in reality, no better than vices disguised.
The boldest stroke and best act of friendship is not to disclose our own failings to a friend, but to show him his own.
We are so accustomed to disguise ourselves to others that in the end we become disguised to ourselves.
Nothing is so contagious as example; never was there any considerable good or ill done that does not produce its like. We imitate good actions through emulation, and had ones through a malignity in our nature, which shame conceals, and example sets at liberty.