A man does not mind being blamed for his faults, and being punished for them, and he patiently suffers much for them; but he becomes impatient if he is required to give them up.

How can one learn to know oneself? Never by introspection, rather by action.

We are so constituted that we believe the most incredible things; and, once they are engraved upon the memory, woe to him who would endeavor to erase them.

A man doesn't learn to understand anything unless he loves it.

Tolerance comes of age. I see no fault committed that I myself could not have committed at some time or other.

By nature we have no defect that could not become a strength, no strength that could not become a defect.

The history of mankind is his character.