We Are Eager To Believe That Others

He Who Refuses Praise The First Time That It Is Offered Does So Because He Would Hear It A Second Time.

Pride Has A Greater Share Than Goodness In The Reproofs We Give Other People For Their Faults; And We Chide Them Not So Much To Make Them Mend Those Faults As To Make Them Believe That We Ourselves Are Without Fault.

Nature Makes Merit, And Fortune Puts It To Work.

We Own Up To Minor Failings, But Only So As To Convince Others That We Have No Major Ones.

Why Can We Remember The Tiniest Detail That Has Happened To Us, And Not Remember How Many Times We Have Told It To The Same Person.