Vociferation and calmness of character seldom meet in the same person.
Stubbornness is the strength of the weak.
The proportion of genius to the vulgar is like one to a million.
Who partakes in another's joys is a more humane character than he who partakes in his griefs.
Receive no satisfaction for premeditated impertinence - forget it, forgive it - but keep him inexorably at a distance who of∣fered it.
Close thine ear against him that shall open his mouth secretly against another. If thou receivest not his words, they fly back and wound the reporter. If thou dost receive them, they fly forward and wound the receiver.