Everyone is prejudiced in favor of his own powers of discernment.

Everyone is prejudiced in favor of his own powers of discernment.

The highest of characters is his who is as ready to pardon the moral errors of mankind as if he were every day guilty of them himself; and as cautious of committing a fault as if he never forgave one.

Unfinished paintings are more admired than the finished because the artist's actual thoughts are left visible.

So we must work at our profession and not make anybody else's idleness an excuse for our own. There is no lack of readers and listeners; it is for us to produce something worth being written and heard.

For however often a man may receive an obligation from you, if you refuse a request, all former favors are effaced by this one denial.

Objects which are usually the motives of our travels by land and by sea are often overlooked and neglected if they lie under our eye.