Two persons cannot long be friends if they cannot forgive each other's little failings.
Jean de la BruyereA wise man is not governed by others, nor does he try to govern them; he prefers that reason alone prevail.
Jean de la BruyereThe punishment of a criminal is an example to the rabble; but every decent man is concerned if an innocent person is condemned.
Jean de la BruyereThe noblest deeds are well enough set forth in simple language; emphasis spoils them.
Jean de la BruyereA good author, and one who writes carefully, often discovers that the expression of which he has been in search without being able to discover it, and which he has at last found, is that which was the most simple, the most natural, and which seems as if it ought to have presented itself at once, without effort, to the mind.
Jean de la Bruyere