“We rarely think people have good sense unless they agree with us.”

“Few people have the wisdom to prefer the criticism that would do them good, to the praise that deceives them.”

“Thinkers think and doers do. But until the thinkers do and the doers think, progress will be just another word in the already overburdened vocabulary by sense.”

“We have no patience with other people's vanity because it is offensive to our own.”

“We often forgive those who bore us, but we do not forgive those we bore”.”

“How rare true love maybe, it is less so than true friendship.”

“We always like those who admire us; we do not always like those whom we admire”