“ Love thou the rose, yet leave it on its stem. ”
The sunshine of the mind.
~ Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton
If you wish to be loved, show more of your faults than your virtues.
The best teacher is the one who suggests rather than dogmatizes, and inspires his listener with the wish to teach himself.
Power is so characteristically calm, that calmness in itself has the aspect of strength.