A man who shows no defect is a fool or a hypocrite, whom we should mistrust. There are defects so bound to fine qualities that they announce them,--defects which it is well not to correct.

Those readiest to criticise are often least able to appreciate.

Abuse of words is the foundation of ideology.

In clothes clean and fresh there is a kind of youth with which age should surround itself.

A maxim is the exact and noble expression of an important and indisputable truth. Good maxims are the germs of all excellence; when firmly fixed on the memory, they nourish the will.

All disputation makes the mind deaf; and when people are deaf, I am dumb.

Men have torn up the roads which led to Heaven, and which all the world followed; now we have to make our own ladders.