The true teacher defends his pupils against his own personal influence. He inspires self-distrust. He guides their eyes from himse...lf to the spirit that quickens him. He will have no disciple.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
A man who keeps a diary pays, Due toll to many tedious days;... But life becomes eventful--then, His busy hand forgets the pen. Most books, indeed, are records less Of fulness than of emptiness.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Mutual repect implies discretion and reserve even in love itself; it means preserving as much liberty as possible to those whose l...ife we share. We must distrust our instinct of intervention, for the desire to make one's own will prevail is often disguised under the mask of solicitude.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
I distrust those people who know so well what God wants them to do, because I notice it always coincides with their own desires.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
America has always been a country of amateurs where the professional, that is to say, the man who claims authority as a member of ...an élite which knows the law in some field or other, is an object of distrust and resentment.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
When once--which every body must be--you are convinced of the wickedness and deceit of men, it is impossible to preserve untainted... your own innocence of heart. Experience will prove the depravity of mankind, and the conviction of it only serves to create distrust, suspicion--caution--and sometimes causelessly.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The most important service rendered by the press and the magazines is that of educating people to approach printed matter with dis...trust.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Such reproductions may not interest the reader; but after all, this is my autobiography, not his; he is under no obligation to rea...d further in it; he was under none to begin.... A modest or inhibited autobiography is written without entertainment to the writer and read with distrust by the reader.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Distrust all those who love you extremely upon a very slight acquaintance, and without any visible reason. Be upon your guard, too..., against those who confess, as their weaknesses, all the cardinal virtues.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Grace is always natural, though that does not prevent its being often used to hide a lie. The rude shocks and uncomfortably constr...aining influences of life disappear among graceful women and poetical men; they are the most deceptive beings in creation; distrust and doubt cannot stand before them; they create what they imagine; if they do not lie to others, they do to their own hearts; for illusion is their element, fiction their vocation, and pleasures in appearance their happiness. Beware of grace in woman, and poetry in man--weapons the more dangerous because the least dreaded!LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »