We are franker towards others than towards ourselves.

Full is the earth of the superfluous; marred is life by the many-too-many. May they be decoyed out of this life by the "life eternal"!

We count the courtesies accorded us by unpopular people as offenses.

The errors of great men are venerable because they are more fruitful than the truths of little men.

In being wildly natural we recover best from being unnatural, from being spiritual.

There is nothing for which men ask to be paid dearer than for humiliation.

Everyone needs a sense of shame, but no one needs to feel ashamed.