We need very strong ears to hear ourselves judged frankly, and because there are few who can endure frank criticism without being stung by it, those who venture to criticize us perform a remarkable act of friendship, for to undertake to wound or offend a man for his own good is to have a healthy love for him.
The most profound joy has more of gravity than of gaiety in it.
No passion disturbs the soundness of our judgement as anger does.
If it be well weighed, to say that a man lieth, is as much to say, as that he is brave towards God and a coward towards men.
The most fruitful and natural exercise for our minds is, in my opinion, conversation.
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