It is only before those who are glad to hear it, and anxious to spread it, that we find it easy to speak ill of others.

Where talent is a dwarf, self-esteem is a giant.

To endeavor to move by the same discourse hearers who differ in age, sex, position and education is to attempt to open all locks with the same key.

The hatred we bear our enemies injures their happiness less than our own.

Those virtues which cost us dear prove that we love God; those which are easy to us prove that He loves us.

It is almost impossible to find those who admire us entirely lacking in taste.

To protect ourselves against the storms of passion, marriage with a woman is a harbor in the tempest; but with a bad woman it is a tempest in the harbor.