It has always appeared to me that there is so much to be done in this world, that all self-inflicted suffering which cannot be turned to good account… - Arthur Helps

The more truth you can get into any business, the better. Let the other side know the defects of yours, let them know how you are to be satisfied, let there be as little to be found as possible (I should say nothing), and if your business be an honest one, it will be best tended in this way.

Even the most careless people have a sort of aversion to signing things which they have never considered.

Our knowledge of human nature is for the most part empirical; and it would often be better, if, instead of endeavouring to say some new things ourselves, we were to confirm without more words the sayings of another.