And still, laughter is akin to weeping.

As a man's salutations, so is the total of his character; in nothing do we lay ourselves so open as in our manner of meeting and salutation.

No communication or gift can exhaust genius or impoverish charity.

He who freely praises what he means to purchase, and he who enumerates the faults of what he means to sell, may set up a partnership with honesty.

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

Not every one who has the gift of speech understands the value of silence.

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