Say nothing good of yourself, you will be distrusted; say nothing bad of yourself, you will be taken at your word.
Persons of delicate taste endure stupid criticism better than they do stupid praise.
Friendship admits of difference of character, as love does that of sex.
Literature was formerly an art and finance a trade; today it is the reverse.
That which deceives us and does us harm, also undeceives us and does us good.
God is a shower to the heart burned up with grief; God is a sun to the face deluged with tears.