A gift--its kind, its value and appearance; the silence or the pomp that attends it; the style in which it reaches you--may decide the dignity or vulgarity of the giver.

Beware of biting jests; the more truth they carry with them, the greater wounds they give, the greater smarts they cause, and the greater scars they leave behind them.

If you wish to appear agreeable in society, you must consent to be taught many things which you already know.

True love, like the eye, can bear no flaw.

To realize that you were mistaken, is just the acknowledgement , that you are wiser today than you were yesterday.

Loudness is impotence.

The freer you feel yourself in the presence of another, the more free is he...