Nothing in the world is so rare as a person one can always put up with.

A dictionary can embrace only a small part of the vast tapestry of a language.

I may be wrong, but it seems rare in our age to find a widely praised person whose own mouth is not the source of that praise.

Men are ready to suffer anything from others or from heaven itself, provided that, when it comes to words, they are untouched.

Nothing in the world is so rare as a person one can always put up with.

Every man remembers his childhood as a kind of mythical age, just as every nation's childhood is its mythical age.

If content with himself and mankind, a man is never harsh or curt.