The accent of one's birthplace persists in the mind and heart as much as in speech. - François de La Rochefoucauld

There are few people who are more often wrong than those who cannot suffer being wrong.

Though sincerity and confidence have many points of resemblance, they have yet many points of difference. Sincerity is an openness of heart, which shows us what we are, a love of truth, a dislike to deception, a wish to compensate our faults and to lessen them by the merit of confessing them.

Por descubrimientos que se hayan hecho en el país del amor propio, quedan todavía en él muchas tierras incógnitas.