We discover in others what others hide from us, and we recognize in others what we hide from ourselves.

It is easy to criticize an author, but difficult to appreciate him.

Action makes more fortune than caution.

Men's thinking that you must halt before the barrier of inner negativity. You need not. You can crash through...whatever we see a negative state, that is where we can destroy it.

Generosity gives assistance, rather than advice.

We are so presumptuous that we think we can separate our personal interest from that of humanity, and slander mankind without compromising ourselves.

If people did not compliment one another there would be little society.

Patience is the art of hoping.

Men's maxims reveal their characters.