Against criticism a man can neither protest nor defend himself; he must act in spite of it, and then criticism will gradually yield to him.
A man’s manners are the mirror in which he shows his portrait.
A man must cling to the belief that the incomprehensible is comprehensible; otherwise he would not try to fathom it.
A man does not mind being blamed for his faults, and being punished for them, and he patiently suffers much for the sake of them; but he becomes impatient if he is required to give them up.