The instructed man is ashamed to pronounce in an Orphic manner what everybody knows, and because he is silent people think he is making fun of them.

Nothing is so soothing to our self-esteem as to find our bad traits in our forebears. It seems to absolve us.

Genius and virtue are to be more often found clothed in gray than in peacock bright.

The writer is important only by dint of the territory he colonizes.

Magnanimous people have no vanity, they have no jealousy, and they feed on the true and the solid wherever they find it. And, what is more, they find it everywhere.

How delightful is the company of generous people, who overlook trifles and keep their minds instinctively fixed on whatever is good and positive in the world around them.

The instructed man is ashamed to pronounce in an Orphic manner what everybody knows, and because he is silent people think he is making fun of them.