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

A sneer is often the sign of heartless malignity.

Desire is the uneasiness a man finds in himself upon the absence of anything whose present enjoyment carries the idea of delight with it.

He whom common, gross, or stale objects allure, and when obtained, content, is a vulgar being, incapable of greatness in thought or action.

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

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

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