There is a manner of forgiveness so divine that you are ready to embrace the offender for having called it forth.

Beware of biting jests; the more truth they carry with them, the greater wounds they give, the greater smarts they cause, and the greater scars they leave behind them.

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

Mistrust the man who finds everything good, the man who finds everything evil and still more the man who is indifferent to everything.

Half talent is no talent.

It is a poor wit who lives by borrowing the words, decisions, mien, inventions and actions of others.

The less you can enjoy, the poorer, the scantier yourself - the more you can enjoy, the richer, the more vigorous.