Ah, we have to be generous to be grateful ... One has oneself to be a giver.

Magnifying a matter is not the way to mend it.

It is not for us to hold ourselves above the position of grateful people. We have to be able to accept. Anything else shows an unwillingness to grant someone else the superior place.

A leopard does not change his spots, or change his feeling that spots are rather a credit.

It is no good to think that other people are out to serve our interests.

Civilized life exacts its toll.

You should not want to know the things in people's minds. If you were meant to hear them, they would be said.