1409  look inner is better look outside for blame

930  The man who backbites an absent friend, nay, who does not stand up for him when another blames him, the man who angles for bursts of laughter and for the repute of a wit, who can invent what he never saw, who cannot keep a secret - that man is black at heart: mark and avoid him.

800  Such praise coming from so degraded a source, was degrading to me, its recipient.

794  I will go further, and assert that nature without culture can often do more to deserve praise than culture without nature.

711  Praise, like gold and diamonds, owes its value only to its scarcity.