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.

He whose pride oppresses the humble may perhaps be humbled, but will never be humble.

Learn the value of a man's words and expressions, and you know him. Each man has a measure of his own for everything; this he offers you inadvertently in his words. He who has a superlative for everything wants a measure for the great or small.

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

The jealous are possessed by a mad devil and a dull spirit at the same time.

The man who loves with his whole heart truth will love still more he who suffers for truth.

Neither refinement nor delicacy is indispensable to produce elegance.