“The defects and faults of the mind are like wounds in the body. After all imaginable care has been taken to heal them up, still there will be a scar left behind.”

“The defects of the mind arelike the wounds of the body. Whatever care we take to heal them the scars ever remain, and there is always danger of their reopening.”

“Almost all our faults are more pardonable than the methods we resort to to hide them.”

“We would often be ashamed of our best actions if the world only knew the motives behind them.”

“He who imagines he can do without the world deceives himself much; but he who fancies the world cannot do without him is still more mistaken.”

“A true friend is the greatest of all blessings, and that which we take the least care of all to acquire.”

“One cannot answer for his courage when he has never been in danger.”