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

Just so far as we are pleased at finding faults, are we displeased at finding perfection.

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

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

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.

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?

He who, when called upon to speak a disagreeable truth, tells it boldly and has done is both bolder and milder than he who nibbles in a low voice and never ceases nibbling.