“We all love best not those who offend us least, nor those who have done most for us, but those who make it most easy for us to forgive them.”

“Those who produce should have, but we know that those who produce the most — that is, those who work hardest, and at the most difficult and most menial tasks, have the least.”

“We often forgive those who bore us, but we cannot forgive those whom we bore.”

“But it can be laid down as a rule that those who speak most of liberty are least inclined to use it.”

“It's those who lie outside ordinary experience who have the most to teach us.”

“People who truly love us can be divided into two categories: those who understand us, and those who forgive us our worst sins. Rarely do you find someone capable of both.”

“We are who we are, be­cause of those we choose to love and be­cause of those who love us.”

“The people who influence us most are not those who buttonhole us and talk to us, but those who live their lives like the stars in heaven and the lilies in the field, perfectly simply and unaffectedly. Those are the lives that mould”

“We admire and love those people who constantly tease us, but we are doubtful of those who show us too much love.”

“Of what use is freedom of speech to those who fear to offend?”