“There are more things in people that are rather worth of admiration than contempt.”
“There are few things under heaven more unnerving than the silent, accumulating contempt and hatred of a people.”
“There is nothing that people bear more impatiently, or forgive less, than contempt; and an injury is much sooner forgotten than an insult.”
“Good writers have two things in common: they prefer to be understood rather than admired; and they do not write for knowing and over-acute readers.”
“Fear can be the result of admiration, or it can be a symptom of contempt.”
“The least of things with a meaning is worth more in life than the greatest of things without it.”