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

Don't speak evil of someone if you don't know for certain, and if you do know ask yourself, why am I telling it?

Certain trifling flaws sit as disgracefully on a character of elegance as a ragged button on a court dress.

He who, in questions of right, virtue, or duty, sets himself above all ridicule, is truly great, and shall laugh in the end with truer mirth than ever he was laughed at.

Say not you know another entirely till you have divided an inheritance with him.

Intuition is the clear conception of the whole at once.

Thinkers are as scarce as gold.