Be not so severe as to cause shyness, nor so clement as to encourage boldness.
Now that another is suffering pain at thy hand, trust not that thy heart shall be exempt from affliction.
Whoever interrupts the conversation of others to make a display of his fund of knowledge, makes notorious his own stock of ignorance.
None can be so true to your secret as yourself.
Whatever makes an impression on the heart seems lovely in the eye.
No one ever sowed the grain of generosity who gathered not up the harvest of the desire of his heart.