Confidence in others' honesty is no light testimony of one's own integrity.
Truth and reason are common to everyone, and are no more his who spake them first than his who speaks them after.
Only he can judge of matters great and high whose soul is likewise.
In general I ask for books that make use of learning, not those that build it up.
Silence and modesty are very valuable qualities in conversation.
Other people do not see you at all, but guess at you by uncertain conjectures.