We see only what we know.

I wish the crowd to feel itself well treated, Especially since it lives and lets me live.

Not the maker of plans and promises, but rather the one who offers faithful service in small matters. This is the person who is most likely to achieve what is good and lasting.

If a good person does you wrong, act as though you had not noticed it. If we practice and eye for an eye and a tooth for a tooth, soon the wholeworld will be blind and toothless.

The little man is still a man.

We see only what we know.

Every reader, if he has a strong mind, reads himself into the book, and amalgamates his thoughts with those of the author.