Who partakes in another's joys is a more humane character than he who partakes in his griefs.

He is incapable of a truly good action who finds not a pleasure in contemplating the good actions of others.

Receive no satisfaction for premeditated impertinence - forget it, forgive it - but keep him inexorably at a distance who of∣fered it.

Let the degree of egotism be the measure of confidence.

Who forces himself on others is to himself a load. Impetuous curiosity is empty and inconstant. Prying intrusion may be suspected of whatever is little.

Who in the same given time can produce more than others has vigor; who can produce more and better, has talents; who can produce what none else can, has genius.

The manner of giving shows the character of the giver, more than the gift itself.