Close your eyes and you will see.

Those readiest to criticise are often least able to appreciate.

The voice is a human sound which nothing inanimate can perfectly imitate. It has an authority and an insinuating property which writing lacks. It is not merely so much air, but air modulated and impregnated with life.

Those who never retract their opinions love themselves more than they love the truth.

When we love, it is the heart that judges.

Old age takes from the man of intellect no qualities save those that are useless to wisdom.

It is always our inabilities that vex us.