Whoever has witnessed another's ideal becomes his inexorable judge and as it were his evil conscience.

If there is something to pardon in everything, there is also something to condemn.

It is a mistake, too, to say that the face is the mirror of the soul. The truth is, men are very hard to know, and yet, not to be deceived, we must judge them by their present actions, but for the present only.

Ordinarily men exercise their memory much more than their judgment.

Undeserved praise causes more pangs of conscience later than undeserved blame, but probably only for this reason, that our power of judgment are more completely exposed by being over praised than by being unjustly underestimated.

Nothing can be loved or hated unless it is first understood.