You don't love if you don't take the beloved's faults for virtues.

There is no trifling with nature; it is always true, grave, and severe; it is always in the light, and the faults and errors fall to our share. It defies incompetency, but reveals its secrets to the competent, the truthful, and the pure.

Errors belong to libraries; truth, to the human mind.

If you modestly enjoy your fame you are not unworthy to rank with the holy.

People can only live with their equals, and not even with them; for in the long run they cannot tolerate that someone is their equal.

Tolerance should really only be a passing attitude: it should lead to appreciation. To tolerate is to offend.

If youth is a fault, it is one that one gets rid of soon enough.