"People always complain about their memories, never..." - Quote by Francois De La Rochefoucauld

“If it requires great tact to speak to the purpose, it requires no less to know when to be silent.”

“Many young persons believe themselves natural when they are only impolite and coarse.”

“One of the greatest and also the commonest of faults is for men to believe that, because they never hear their shortcomings spoken of, or read about them in cold print, others can have no knowledge of them. GEORG CHRISTOPH LICHTENBERG, The Reflections of Lichtenberg We are often more agreeable through our faults than our good qualities.”

“How many crimes are permitted simply because their authors could not endure being wrong.”

“Right or wrong, it's very pleasant to break something from time to time.”

“All knives and forks were working away at a rate that was quite alarming; very few words were spoken; and everybody seemed to eat his utmost, in self defence, as if a famine were expected to set in before breakfast-time to-morrow morning, and it had become high time to assert the first law of nature.”

“I dwell with a strangely aching heart In that vanished abode there far apart”

“People will never forget how you made them feel.”

“You may forget with whom you laughed, but you will never forget with whom you wept.”