People are very inclined to set moral standards for others.

There is a certain wisdom of humanity which is common to the greatest men with the lowest, and which our ordinary education oftenlabors to silence and obstruct.

If we shall take the good we find, asking no questions, we shall have heaping measures.

Language is a city to the building of which every human being brought a stone.

There is no one who does not exaggerate. In conversation, men are encumbered with personality, and talk too much.

A man is the whole encyclopedia of facts.

The eyes of men converse as much as their tongues, with the advantage that the ocular dialect needs no dictionary, but is understood all the world over.