Any fool can try to defend his mistakes - and most fools do - but it gives one a feeling of nobility to admit one's mistakes. By fighting, you never get enough, but by yielding, you get more than you expected.

Any fool can try to defend his mistakes - and most fools do - but it gives one a feeling of nobility to admit one's mistakes. By fighting, you never get enough, but by yielding, you get more than you expected.

Have you not noticed in your past experience that your kind interpretations were almost always truer than your harsh ones?

Strength of character means the ability to overcome resentment against others, to hide hurt feelings, and to forgive quickly.

If, when you charged a person with his faults, you credited him with his virtues too, you would probably like everybody.

Cheerfulness is a very great help in fostering the virtue of charity. Cheerfulness itself is a virtue.

A sarcastic person has a superiority complex that can be cured only by the honesty of humility.