You cannot truly listen to anyone and do anything else at the same time.

Almost all four faults are more pardonable than the methods we think up to hide them

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Difficultiesare meant to rouse, not discourage. The human spirit is to grow strong byconflict.

Earnest people are often people who habitually look on the serious side of things that have no serious side

A foolshows his annoyance at once, but a prudent man overlooks an insult.

Instinct is the nose of the mind.

Useful manual labour, intelligently performed is the means per excellence for developing the intellect.

To do what others cannot do is talent. To do what talent cannot do is genius.

He that is unkind to his own will not be kind to others.

A half-truth won for ourselves is worth more than a whole truth learned from others.

Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely.