If we desire to judge justly, we must persuade ourselves that none of us is without sin.

The artist finds a greater pleasure in painting than in having completed the picture.

Let us bear with magnanimity whatever it is needful for us to bear.

It is sweet to mingle tears with tears; Griefs, where they wound in solitude, Wound more deeply.

Those griefs burn most which gall in secret.

An old man at school is a contemptible and ridiculous object.

What others think of us would be of little moment did it not, when known, so deeply tinge what we think of ourselves.