“For many people, one of the most frustrating aspects of life is not being able to understand other people's behavior.”

“Treat people as if they were what they ought to be and you help them to become what they are capable of being.”

“Oblivion is full of people who allow the opinions of others to overrule their belief in themselves.”

“People of uncommon abilities generally fall into eccentricities when their sphere of life is not adequate to their abilities.”

“People are so constituted that everybody would rather undertake what they see others do, whether they have an aptitude for it or not.”

“If we put ourselves in the place of other people, the jealousy and hatred we so often feel about them would disappear, and if we put others in our place, pride and conceit would greatly diminish.”

“His easy going behavior contrasts greatly with my restlessness”