Susceptible persons are more affected by a change of tone that by unexpected words.
We hand folks over to God's mercy, and show none ourselves.
It is not true that a man's intellectual power is, like the strength of a timber beam, to be measured by its weakest point.
It is necessary to me, not simply to be but to utter, and I require utterance of my friends.
Plainness has its peculiar temptations and vices quite as much as beauty.
I've never any pity for conceited people, because I think they carry their comfort about with them.