I have been forced to conclude from this that we know our friends by their defects rather than by their merits.

I'll give you my opinion of the human race in a nutshell... their heart's in the right place, but their head is a thoroughly inefficient organ.

It is salutary to train oneself to be no more affected by censure than by praise:

The common idea that success spoils people by making them vain, egotistic and self-complacent is erroneous; on the contrary it makes them, for the most part, h…