Three things tell a man: his eyes, his friends and his favorite quotes
If a man is often the subject of conversation he soon becomes the subject of criticism.
An action is essentially good if the motive of the agent be good, regardless of the consequences.
If man makes himself a worm he must not complain when he is trodden on.
But only he who, himself enlightened, is not afraid of shadows.
The arts of speech are rhetoric and poetry. Rhetoric is the art of transacting a serious business of the understanding as if it were a free play of the imagination; poetry that of conducting a free play of the imagination as if it were a serious business of the understanding.