You may tell a man thou art a fiend, but not your nose wants blowing; to him alone who can bear a thing of that kind, you may tell all.
He whose pride oppresses the humble may perhaps be humbled, but will never be humble.
Who forces himself on others is to himself a load. Impetuous curiosity is empty and inconstant. Prying intrusion may be suspected of whatever is little.
He who freely praises what he means to purchase, and he who enumerates the faults of what he means to sell, may set up a partnership with honesty.
A gift--its kind, its value and appearance; the silence or the pomp that attends it; the style in which it reaches you--may decide the dignity or vulgarity of the giver.
The generous person is always just, and the just who is always generous may, unannounced, approach the throne of heaven.
Action, looks, words, steps, form the alphabet by which you may spell character.
Him, who incessantly laughs in the street, you may commonly hear grumbling in his closet.